Visits by representatives of the Executive Council

C-11/DEC.20 adopted by the Conference of the States Parties at its Eleventh Session on 8 December 2006 and entitled Visits by representatives of the Executive Council  

Recalling that, pursuant to Article 1, paragraph 2 of the Chemical Weapons Convention (hereinafter the Convention ), each State Party undertakes to destroy chemical weapons it owns or possesses in accordance with the provisions of the Convention  

Recalling also that, according to Article IV, paragraph 6 of the Convention each State Party shall destroy all chemical weapons specified in paragraph 1 of that Article pursuant to the Verification Annex to the Convention (hereinafter the Verification Annex ) and in accordance with the agreed rate and sequence of destruction  

Bearing in mind the stipulations in Part IV (A), paragraph 26 of the Verification Annex that any extension shall be the minimum necessary, and that in no case shall the deadline for a State Party to complete its destruction of all chemical weapons be extended beyond 15 years after the entry into force of the Convention (29 April 2012)  

Bearing in mind also the stipulation in the same paragraph that the Executive Council (hereinafter the Council ) shall set conditions for the granting of the extension, including the specific verification measures deemed necessary, as well as specific actions to be taken by the State Party to overcome problems in its destruction programme  

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