The Chemical Weapons Convention, formally 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 in The Hague, which entered into force on 29 April 1997. It prohibits the use, large-scale development, production, stockpiling and transfer of chemical weapons and their precursors except for narrow research, medical, pharmaceutical or protective purposes, and obligates member states to destroy their existing stockpiles under OPCW verification, an effort the states parties completed in July 2023. As of August 2022, 193 states were party to the convention, with Israel a signatory that has not ratified and Egypt, North Korea and South Sudan neither signed nor acceded.
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Key ProvisionEntered into force 29 April 1997 (opened for signature 13 January 1993); prohibits the development, production, stockpiling, transfer and use of chemical weapons, administered by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. 1 Sources
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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.
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