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Strengthening the Role of the BTWC and CWC


Author(s): Jez Littlewood
Publisher(s): United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Geneva, Switzerland
Publication: Building a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East
Date of publication: 2004
From Page 25 to 46

Description: The 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) and the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) build upon, and strengthen, a long-standing norm against the use of chemical and biological weapons. This norm is enshrined in the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which prohibits the use in war of chemical and bacteriological methods of warfare. The norm against use has been bolstered and strengthened by the BTWC and the CWC, which require effective biological and chemical disarmament.

General note: © 2004 United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
Bibliographic note: The annex details the general purpose criterion in the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) and the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).


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