Biological and chemical weapons
- Author: United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
- Main Title: United Nations Disarmament Yearbook 2004 , pp 73-89
- Publication Date: June 2006
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/edea3cdb-en
- Language: English
The threat to international peace and security posed by chemical and biological weapons has been a preoccupation of the international community for a long time. Persistent endeavours resulted in the conclusion of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BWC) — the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning an entire category of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) — and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC) — the first such treaty to be negotiated entirely within a multilateral disarmament forum, the Conference on Disarmament (the Conference). Ever since the two Conventions were opened for signature in 1972 and 1993 respectively, the United Nations has sought to promote their universality, as well as compliance with their provisions. In addition, States have continued to reaffirm the necessity of upholding the principles and objectives of the 1925 Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.
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ISBN (PDF):
9789211556483
Book DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18356/acc1ad34-en
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Disarmament
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