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Building Secure Future

• Dr. Mohammad Hossein MODARESSI

Director of Pasteur Institute of Iran Meeting of States Parties, BWC, Geneva, 6-10 Dec. 2010

Pasteur Institute of Iran

• Pasteur Institute of Iran

which is a 90 year old research center set up for combating of infectious diseases.

• We are the first center in the

middle east producing vaccines under supervision

• f National Regulatory

Authority which has been approved by WHO in 2010.

Pasteur Institute of Iran

• Our vaccines production facilities have

been visited by different experts from WHO, EMRO, countries ( France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, India and etc.) and companies ( Sanofi Pasteur, Novartis, Omnivest and etc.) since 2007

Pasteur Institute of Iran

International association and collaborations

• We are associated with the

Pasteur Institute of France and part of the Pasteur institute networks which is dedicated to the humanitarian cause of eradication of diseases in the world.

• Some training Courses and

workshops for neighboring countries on Malaria and Vector- borne diseases carry out every year.

Pasteur Institute of Iran

• Our many research

departments carry out surveillance and GIS for different infectious diseases in the country, we work on malaria, Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), Rabies, Leishamniosis, tuberculosis, HIV, hepatitits, Influenza and etc..

Standard Strains Requirements

• We make detection kits for these

diseases and as you all know we need standard strains of bacteria and viruses to be used as reference for our kits and tests.

• For the past few years, we have been

finding it difficult to get standard strains

• f bacteria, viruses and even antibodies

which are freely available to all researchers the world over.

Restrictions and limitations

• These restrictions imposed in the field of

peaceful uses of standard strains is in clear violation of the BWC provisions and also to any norm of international cooperation.

"Science has no country, or rather its country encompasses all humanity", Louis Pasteur

Restrictions and limitations results

• Such restriction would have no impact on our

resolve and determination to protect our peoples’ health

• But what would be the results of these

restrictions?

• -- Going to self sufficiency, Improvement and

development of indigenous capability To develop an international scientific cooperation, Mutual trust is a must

Biosafety issues in Iran

• The Islamic Republic of Iran proved its

commitment to biosafety issues by joining the Convention on Biological Diversity in August

• 1996. According to Paragraph 8 of this

Convention, Iran commits itself to the creation and maintenance of tools necessary for supervising, managing and controlling risks in the use or release of living modified

• rganisms resulting from modern

biotechnology with regards to human health and the environment.

History of Biosafety in Iran

• Iran signed the Cartagena Protocol
• n Biosafety in 2001.
• In 2003 The Iranian Parliament ratified

the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

National Biosafety Law

• In 29 July 2009, The Iranian

Parliament ratified the Biosafety

• Act. Therefor,Biosafety Act of

Iran came into force on 27th August 2009 following the order

• f President.

Immigration and borders

• It should be noted that though the

incidence of many infectious diseases has come down greatly in Iran, but due to the strife in our neighboring countries and migration, there is a permanent threat of these diseases in the border regions.

Remember we are living in a global village, anything wrong can affect all of us!

Suggestions

• There is a strong demand for the full

implementation of Article X of BWC

• To think scientifically and to work globally

together so we always see and control each

• ther
• There is an increasing demand to improve

cooperation in the field of transfer Biological agents and knowledge for peaceful purposes.

• politically motivated restrictions and limitations in

this regard should be removed

Thank you for your attention

"Science has no country, or rather its country encompasses all humanity", Louis Pasteur