implementation, implementation, implementation --- @Vladimir - couldn't agree with you more: implementation, implementation, implementation. I've been co-operating with States for 18+ years to implement the WMD treaties (to keep NBC materials out of bad actors hands primarily) but it's a heavy lift: governmental priorities (and shinier priorities), expense, lack of capacity and technical training, donor (and recipient) fatigue, reporting fatigue. The list goes on. But it works, and though it may take a few years in some cases, the legislation in many countries eventually gets through. The CoE's programme, which I took a look at, will necessarily need to be for the long haul. And if an international convention goes through the same can be said of that.

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