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.
For some reasons that treaty supporters acknowledge and some they do not the Chemical Weapons Convention must be defeated.
Several countries in the Middle East have refused to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention until Israel signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Most importantly, this testimony comes shortly before the Foreign Relations Committee will be compelled to report out the Chemical Weapons Convention.
For some reasons that treaty supporters acknowledge -- and some they do not -- the Chemical Weapons Convention must be defeated.
If, in contrast to the Chemical Weapons Convention, Republican ranks are unified, this fatally flawed arms control treaty will surely be defeated in the Senate.
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.
Under all foreseeable circumstances, the Chemical Weapons Convention will simply serve to ensure that only law-abiding nations like the United States are denied a CW stockpile.
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.
The U.S. Senate should reject ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), a treaty that purports to ban chemical weapons and forbid their production, stockpiling, and use.
Far from addressing the problems of the existing chemical weapons agreement, the administration wants to plunge into another, more problematic arms control pact: the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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.
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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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.
It can only be hoped that President Clinton will recognize that far from enhancing the international arms control regime, agreements like the Chemical Weapons Convention actually serve to debase the value of that regime.
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