Geneva negotiations

Hence, a number of formerly very contentious issues that might have been expected to figure very prominently at the first RevCon barely caused a ripple. This was the result of several factors, including the changing security environment and the fact that a number of worst-case scenarios in the minds of the Geneva negotiators did not eventuate. In my view, this is not an indication that the RevCon did not achieve a substantial review of most of the aspects of the operation of the CWC. 

The quest for a bilateral accord had become the immediate priority of the Bush administration. It was perceived as a means of improving Soviet-American relations, as a further enhancement of European security, and as a spur to the completion of the Geneva negotiations. Any doubts... 

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, shortly described as Convention on general and comprehensive prohibition of chemical weapons, or Chemical Weapons Convention, abbreviated as CWC, was adopted in 1992 after complex negotiations on the basis of The Conference on Disarmament (and previous multilateral negotiating fora in Geneva), lasting nearly a quarter of a century mainly due to the worldwide spread of chemical industry and relatively easy... 

Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, Legal Texts, Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 1995. 

Chapter 3 is concerned with the period between the two world wars. It describes the ways in which public opinion in the field of chemical warfare was aroused after the experience of the First World War, and to some extent how public opinion was then exploited. The chapter considers some of the effects of this including how it stimulated the negotiation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol, one of the most important pieces of conventional international law prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons. The chapter also considers the national policies and programmes relating to chemical warfare in the inter-war period and examines important chemical warfare discoveries in these decades. 

Although, by the end-game of the negotiations in Geneva in 1992, Russia had clearly stated that it would be difficult for it to meet the 10-year destruction deadline without considerable assistance from other countries. 

It is said that a similar criterion was in the minds of CWC negotiators in Geneva. A 1 tonne yardstick is indeed used in the CWC itself (Verifi-... 

That the United States tends to think along these fines can be ascertained from the fact that, during the CWC negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, it strongly opposed the possibility that the Execntive Council or the Conference of the States Parties conld determine whether there had been a violation after the snbmission of the final report of the inspection team by the Director-General of the Technical Secretariat. As a resnlt, the CWC provides only that the Execntive Council shall review the final report and address any concerns as to whether any non-compliance has occnrred (Article IX, para. 22). 

Though the Cold War was continuing, the political situation led to increased activities in international negotiations. At the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, some attempts to negotiate a ban of CWs was begun, first as the Ad hoc... 

The years following the agreement of the BTWC saw continued negotiation in Geneva of a treaty to prohibit chemical weapons. This received an impetus during the 1980s when chemical weapons... 

Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations (1994) Marrakesh, April 15,GATT Secretariat, Geneva, p 319... 

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