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.
Efforts have been made since 1918 to stamp them out -- through the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which bans their use, and the 1997 Convention on Chemical Weapons, which bans their use, development, production and transfer -- but still some nations stockpile them.
Last year, after Senate hearings on the Chemical Weapons Convention revealed that the treaty is unverifiable and could have a negative impact on U.S. national security, its ratification was sidetracked for a time.
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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.
The Center for Security Policy calls on CMA to refrain from using its deep-pocketed Political Action Committee in ways that could compromise the integrity of the debate on the Chemical Weapons Convention and put key participants in that debate in compromising positions.
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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Regrettably, as the recent Paris conference illustrated so well, there is no reason whatsoevermention countries (such as Iraq) clearly guilty of violating the existing international arms control agreement on chemical weapons the 1925 Geneva convention banning their first use. for believing that collective enforcement of compliance will occur.
The Geneva Convention banning the use of chemical weapons by states has been on the books since 1925 and has been violated repeatedly, most notably of late by Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war.
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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.
Testifying this morning, associates of the Center for Security Policy served notice on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the pending Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is fatally flawed and urging its rejection.
Chlorine isn't listed on any of the three lists of chemicals banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997.
Simply put, the Bush Administration has become obsessed with its pursuit of a Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) an agreement fraudulently advertized as a "global, verifiable" ban on chemical weapons.
This summer, in addition to its high-profile push for health care and crime legislation, the Clinton administration is quietly pressing another initiative: ratification of the new Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which it touts as a comprehensive, global and verifiable ban on the possession of these horrible instruments of war.
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