{"links":{"self":"https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/311908.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":311908,"parliament":{"period":"2019-2024","government":"Conservative","dissolution_at":"2024-05-30T00:01:00.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Learn from COVID-19: abolish biological weapons","background":"Government and Parliament rightly support international cooperation over present and potential pandemics. They should now use the UK's position in the United Nations by answering the call of the Secretary-General, on 26 March 2020, to strengthen and universalise the Biological Weapons Convention.","additional_details":"COVID-19 warns us of the global disaster that biological warfare (using bacteria, viruses, fungi or other deadly organisms) would unleash. UN Secretary-General Guterres says: 'Scientific advances are reducing technical barriers which ... limited the potential of biological weapons.' Now more than ever, the public will welcome a bold initiative to revitalise the Biological Weapons Convention, making it – at long last – the instrument for securing permanent abolition of all biological weapons.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":21,"created_at":"2020-03-29T13:40:56.898Z","updated_at":"2020-05-18T16:11:36.481Z","rejected_at":"2020-05-18T14:27:39.063Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2020-03-29T18:14:24.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_on":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"no-action","details":"Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.\r\n\r\nWe're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do to strengthen and universalise the treaty. \r\n\t\r\nYou could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do."},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}}}