Chemical Weapons Convention

Also known as CWC

international treaty banning chemical weapons

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The Chemical Weapons Convention is an international treaty that prohibits countries from developing, producing, stockpiling, or using chemical weapons. It matters because it represents a global agreement to prevent the use of these weapons, which can cause widespread death and suffering, and includes inspections to verify that countries are following the rules.

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Official website: www.opcw.org/ru/konvenciya-o-khimicheskom-oruzhii
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Drafted3 September 1992 Signed13 January 1993 LocationParis and New York Effective29 April 1997 ConditionRatification by 65 states Signatories165 Parties193 (List of state parties) Four UN states are not party: Egypt, Israel, North Korea and South Sudan. DepositaryUN Secretary-General LanguagesArabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), officially the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, is an arms control treaty administered by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an intergovernmental organization based in The Hague, Netherlands. The treaty entered into force on 29 April 1997. It prohibits the use of chemical weapons, and the large-scale development, production, stockpiling, or transfer of chemical weapons or their precursors, except for very limited purposes (research, medical, pharmaceutical or protective). The main obligation of member states under the convention is to effect this prohibition, as well as the destruction of all current chemical weapons. All destruction activities must take place under OPCW verification.