Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
Field: Chemical Tiếng Việt
Unofficial translation from the Vietnamese original.
- Signing date
- 13 January 1993
- Entry into force
- 29 April 1997
The Chemical Weapons Convention, whose full title is the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, was adopted by the United Nations on 3 September 1992 in Geneva and subsequently signed by States Parties on 13 January 1993 in Paris. The Convention calls on States Parties to prevent the development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, retention, transfer or use of chemical weapons, with a view to eliminating all chemical weapons and the agents and materials related to chemical weapons.