Chemical weapons destruction India

Information about the destruction of India s declared chemical weapons stockpile is sparse. One may speculate that India, having been the site of the worst industrial chemical accident in history at the Union Carbide facility in Bhopal, is extremely sensitive to legitimate public opinion. India has consistently completed destruction ahead of the Convention s deadlines at its one declared destruction facUity. Understandable pride has been expressed in the rate at which stockpile destruction has been ac-comphshed, with more than 40 per cent having been eliminated. ... 

The pace of destruction varies, of course, from one possessor State Party to another India is ahead of the schedule whereas, in 2003, the United States and the Russian Federation requested extensions of the deadlines for Category 1 chemical weapons stockpile destruction. It is noteworthy, however, that all such destruction efforts and inspection activities have been conducted safely and steadily without major accidents, let alone casualties. 

Requests that the Director-General report periodically to the Council on the progress made by India in completing the destruction of its chemical weapons ... 

Further requests that the Council review the progress made by India in destroying all of its Category 1 chemical weapons, take the necessary measures to document this progress, and provide to States Parties, on request, all information concerning the destruction activities of this State Party during the extension period. 

Recalling and again welcoming the completion of the full destruction of the chemical weapons that had been owned, or possessed, by Albania, India, and a State Party, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention ... 

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