chemical weapons convention

[chasha]

Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC):

Signed in 1993 and in force since 1997.

1. Unlike the more familiar NPT, the CWC is universal and does not create a world of chemical apartheid in which a small group of countries holds legitimate possession of weapons that are banned for everyone else. The principles of universality, equality and non-discrimination have secured near-total adherence to the CWC, embracing 98 per cent of the world’s population and chemical industry.
2. The CWC required destruction of all declared chemical weapons arsenals and production facilities within ten years, by 2007.
3. Unlike the NPT and BWC, the CWC establishes an implementing secretariat, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The OPCW is required to oversee and verify the total destruction of all declared chemical weapons; inactivate and destroy or convert to peaceful purposes all chemical weapons production facilities; and inspect the production and, in some cases, the processing and consumption of dual-use chemicals, and receive declarations of their transfer, in order to ensure their exclusive peaceful use
4. 188 countries have joined the OPCW.

[sivaharimani]

hello asha,
good information.. thanks.. please post the thread little bit big fonts..

[kushal]

good information. I have corrected the formatting as of now.