Chemical Weapons Convention

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) was concluded in 1992 after decades of negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament at Geneva. It was signed at the UN and its headquarters were established at the Hague. As a participant in those negotiations, I remember well that many years were ...

The inspectors were sent by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague. The OPCW is responsible for overseeing the Chemical Weapons Convention — a 1997 treaty banning the production, stockpiling and use of such weapons. Syria signed up to the convention in 2013 after ...

US publication of so-called 'Novichok' formula violates Chemical Weapons Convention – Russia to OPCW ... ('Novichok') allegedly used to poison former double agent Sergei Skripal, was published in the US in gross breach of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Russian mission to the OPCW said.

Brunei Darussalam created a plan to establish a National Authority and draft implementing legislation on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) during a National Awareness-Raising and Legislative Assistance Workshop held recently April in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. Workshop participants ...

The UK ambassador to the UN, Karen Pierce, has called on the security council to conduct a thorough investigation of the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria that occurred on 7 April. She said 'Russia's crocodile tears for the people of Eastern Ghouta has an easy answer. It is to join us in a ...

Faced with the threat of U.S. military action and prodded by longtime ally Russia, Syria declared in September 2013 — two years into its civil war — it had ratified the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention banning the production, storage and use of chemical weapons. A letter from Syrian President Bashar ...

The work of the OPCW is carried out as part of an international control regime that governs what is, or is not, permissible as far as very toxic chemicals are concerned. This was established by the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), to which 192 countries are signed up members. Only North Korea ...

The UK Deputy Permanent Representative, Jonathan Allen, said that Russia was “in serious breach of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)” through its failure to disclose the existence of the Soviet-era Novichok programme – the name of the nerve agent which the UK says was used in the attack on ...

Chemical weapons convention. Ministers' emphasis over Salisbury, diplomatic sources say, will be on seeing the activation of the mechanisms of the Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which enforces the chemical weapons convention. Its ban on their production and use ...

This is a violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention. "The start of the investigation by the international chemical weapons watchdog comes as the Foreign Secretary travels to Brussels to brief foreign ministers from across the European Union on the attempted assassinations in Salisbury before meeting ...

Bishop said Australia would support the UK in any move to send weapons inspectors into Russia to view its program, given Russia's 1997 signature on the chemical weapons convention. “Under the chemical weapons convention, one state that suspects another state of having illegal chemical weapons ...

An arms control treaty - the Chemical Weapons Convention - was signed more than 20 years ago to outlaw the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. One hundred ninety-two countries signed and agreed to the terms in 1997. Toxic chemical substances are subject to different regulations.

The OPCW was founded to implement the international chemical weapons convention which came into force in 1997. Its most recent work has focused on investigating the use of chemical weapons in Syria. In September last year its deputy director-general, Hamid Ali Rao, attended a conference alongside ...

The use of chemical weapons in any circumstances is totally repugnant, and New Zealand is deeply disturbed at any use of chemical substances banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention. "New Zealand fully supports the sovereign right of the UK to take the action it considers appropriate in response ...

The Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans them, has 192 signatory states, one fewer than the United Nations Charter; it's one of the most universally approved international documents in history. Breaking it can entail far more serious sanctions than those Russia has faced for its earlier attempts to ...

The Iraqi Government “welcomes the announcement by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) certifying that Iraq has destroyed all of its chemical weapons remnants, and fulfilled all its obligations deriving from the Chemical Weapons Convention,” it announced in a tweet ...

March 14, 2018 (EIRNS)—The British government is claiming that it is acting in a totally lawful manner with respect to its accusations against Russia on the poisoning of MI6 double agent, former Russian military intelligence (GRU) Col. Sergei Skripal, but the Russians are making a strong case that it's not true. Russia's ...

The nerve agent, Novichok, used to attack a former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury is similar to substances such as soman or sarin used to produce chemical weapons. International law bans chemical weapons through the 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention, which requires its ...

Just over 20 years ago, the Chemical Weapons Convention came into force. It's hard to get the international community to agree on anything, but 192 states signed and ratified the convention because of the simple, horrific and indiscriminate suffering that chemical weapons inflict on human beings.

Windhoek-Cabinet has approved the Chemical Weapons Prohibition and Control Bill, which will ultimately see Namibia make headway towards full implementation of Chemical Weapons Convention. This was announced by the Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Stanley Simataa ...

When the Chemical Weapons Convention was being negotiated, Mr. Guthrie said, “the concern was large-scale use of chemical weapons on the battlefield — that had happened in the Iran-Iraq war.” But that is different from identifying the relatively small-scale use of chemical weapons, like the alleged case ...

Bashar Assad violated the norms regarding chemical weapons, norms that were enshrined in the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, which prohibits the development, manufacture, storage and usage of chemical weapons. This convention is the normative-legal basis for the strike in Syria. U.S. President ...

Nowhere does the [Chemical Weapons] Convention provide for unilateral uses of force in response to a breach of the Convention. And if it had, there's a good chance no state would ever have joined it. And putting the treaty to one side, there is no reason at all to think that any related “norm” prohibiting the ...

The Chemical Weapons Convention is an international arms control treaty which grew out of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament. It was signed in 1993 and came into force four years later. The convention outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and their precursors.