Arms control/disarmament Chemical Weapons Convention

The Chemical Weapons Convention of the 13.01.1993 is disarmament and arms control treaty whose aims are the prohibition of... 

Report of the First Special Session of the Conference of the States Parties to Review the Operation of the Chemical Weapons Convention [First Review Conference] 28 April 9 May 2003, OPCW Doc. RC-1/5, 9 May 2003, p. 22, para. 7.88. For the Review Conference itself, see Alexander Kelle, The CWC after Its First Review Conference Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty , Disarmament Diplomacy, No. 71 (June/July 2003), pp. 31-40 Kerry Boyd, CWC Members Meet to Review Progress, Goals , Arms Control Today 33 4 (May 2003), p. 38. 

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An arms control and disarmament agreement that entered into force on 26 March 1975. Its full name is the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons. Unlike the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), no international secretariat exists to oversee implementation of the BTWC. Treaty implementation matters, includ-... 

Welcoming the draft Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction," adopted by the Conference on Disarmament and contained in its report, the result of many years of intensive negotiations, which constitutes an historic achievement in the field of arms control and disarmament. 

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