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The conclusion of negotiations on the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and Their Destruction (CWC), in the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva in August 1992, brought to an end 20 years of negotiations on a comprehensive treaty to eliminate chemical weapons. To date, 160 countries have signed the Convention since it was opened for signature in Paris in January 1993, and 50 have ratified it. It will enter into force 180 days after the deposit of the sixty-fifth instrument of ratification.
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Kenyon, I.R. (1997). The Destruction of Chemical Weapons Under the Chemical Weapons Convention. In: Schulte, N.T. (eds) Dismantlement and Destruction of Chemical, Nuclear and Conventional Weapons. NATO ASI Series, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1276-7_15
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