NV Podgorny opens the meeting. Foreign Minister A. A. Gromyko makes a report. Speakers B. N. Ponomarev, I. Kapitonov, I. I. Artobolevsky. NV Podgorny speaks with the results of the discussion of the convention on the prohibition of bacteriological and toxic weapons. NV Podgorny signs the Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces on the ratification of the convention.