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Practice Relating to Rule 73. Biological Weapons
VI. Other National Practice
In 1968, during a debate in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, Ghana supported the prohibition of all biological weapons. 
Ghana, Statement before the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, UN Doc. A/C.1/PV.1614, 21 November 1968, p. 6.
At the First Review Conference of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention in 1980, Ghana stated that it “had abided strictly by its obligations under the [1972 Biological Weapons Convention] and, as a developing country, had no intention of developing bacteriological weapons”. 
Ghana, Statement of 7 March 1980 at the First Review Conference of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention, Geneva, 3–21 March 1980, UN Doc. BWC/CONF.I/SR.7, 11 March 1980, § 19.