The Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the production, stockpiling and use of chemical and biological weapons.
The use of chemical and biological weapons are banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Here's a list of answers to frequently asked questions about the Chemical Weapons Convention.
The United States already made this mistake once, in connection with the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
It would be one thing if the Chemical Weapons Convention actually would rid the world of chemical weaponry.
The Conventional Forces in Europe and START I treaties and the Chemical Weapons Convention are cases in point.
Only a handful of countries have failed to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) which internationally bans their use.
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The American-desk-free State Department insists the U.S. military would be violating the Chemical Weapons Convention if it uses RCAs.
Chlorine isn't listed on any of the three lists of chemicals banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997.
Several countries in the Middle East have refused to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention until Israel signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
As the foregoing remarks indicate, Senator Lott has approached the controversial Chemical Weapons Convention in a fair, reasonable and statesmanlike fashion.
This week he asked it to ratify another four-year-old treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention, which would make Russia destroy 40, 000 metric tonnes of chemical agents.
The Chemical Weapons Convention requires other nations to do what we decided to do more than a decade ago -- get rid of all chemical weapons.
In the impending vote on the Chemical Weapons Convention, ratification would require a two-thirds majority, which is to say the votes of 22 of Trent Lott's 55 Republicans.
Rarely has that been more true than with the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) due to be signed by the United States and scores of other nations in Paris tomorrow.
Now America must rise to the challenge of ratifying the Chemical Weapons Convention and doing it before it takes effect on April the 29th, less than three weeks from today.
With the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) awaiting action by the U.S. Senate, the treaty's supporters are asserting that the Tokyo subway poison gas attack demonstrates the need for U.S. ratification.
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In 1996, China pledged to refrain from further assistance to Pakistan's unsafeguarded nuclear facilities, adopted a nuclear testing moratorium, signed the comprehensive nuclear test ban and ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Helm's urging, the full transcript of this hearing is to be printed and make available before the Senate is asked to give its advice and consent to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
First, immediately ratifying the Chemical Weapons Convention, and then giving the United States the means we need to continue our growth by making trade more open and fair in the global economy.
While the Chemical Manufacturers Association has been the most vocal industry advocate of the Chemical Weapons Convention, it represents only some 190 of the companies expected to be covered by the treaty.
Unfortunately, the history of the Chemical Weapons Convention is replete with examples in which such interagency understandings were violated or otherwise sabotaged by those committed to reaching a chemical weapons ban at any cost.
The hearings have also served to identify areas that require further investigation by members of the Senate if they are responsibly to exercise their constitutional duty to advise and consent to treaties like the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Against all these grounds for rejecting the Chemical Weapons Convention, the administration and other proponents have been reduced to claiming that the treaty will establish an "international norm" against the development, production, acquisition, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons.
On the 15th Anniversary of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), we reiterated our commitment to meeting our obligations under the Convention, including the complete destruction of chemical weapons stockpile under verification as soon as possible, in order to protect the integrity of the Convention.
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For this off-site analysis, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) - the implementing agency of the Chemical Weapons Convention - has established an international network of highly competent so-called "designated laboratories" that routinely undergo proficiency testing to ensure that their standard of analysis is up to the needs.
To paraphrase the English wit, Samuel Johnson, who described second marriages as "the triumph of hope over experience, " it was absolutely predictable that prohibitions imposed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and the 1989 Chemical Weapons Convention would be no more successful in creating universally binding international "norms" than was the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was supposed to ban all war.
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There is one less simple explanation: a reported disagreement within Israel's defence establishment over whether or not to ratify the new international convention against chemical weapons.
Currently, 188 nations, representing the vast bulk of the world's population, have signed up to the Convention on Chemical Weapons, which is overseen by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
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