Status of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 71 General and complete disarmament, published in 1997.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1997–1998

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/52/38[T]

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1998	A/RES/52/38[T]	Status of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction	—	—
1997	A/RES/51/45[T]	Status of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction	—	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Chemical Weapons Disarmament Agreements Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

A/RES/51/45 [T]

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Welcomes the fact that the required sixty-five instruments of ratification have now been deposited and that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction11 will therefore enter into force on 29 April 1997;

Stresses the importance to the Convention that all possessors of chemical weapons, chemical weapons production facilities or chemical weapons development facilities should be among the original parties to the Convention and, in this context, the importance of the United States of America and the Russian Federation, having declared possession of chemical weapons, being among the original States parties to the Convention;

Also stresses that this would promote the full realization and effective implementation of the Convention;

Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to sign and/or ratify the Convention without delay;

Notes that the Preparatory Commission for the Organization on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, at its fourteenth session from 22 to 26 July 1996, entrusted the Chairman of the Commission, in close consultation with its member States, with the task of convening, as necessitated by circumstances in connection with the occurrence of the trigger point, a meeting of the Commission to provide appropriate guidance;

Urges the Preparatory Commission for the Organization on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to intensify efforts to complete its remaining work;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-second session an item entitled "Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction".

1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, Part I (NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I)), annex, decision 1.

Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean.

South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty.

Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone.

African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty.

United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 402, No. 5778.

See 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, Part I (NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I)).

Resolution S-10/2.

A/50/752-S/1995/1035, annex III; see Official Records of the Security Council, Fiftieth Year, Supplement for October, November and December 1995, document S/1995/1035.

Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/51/42), para. 30.

Ibid., Forty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/47/27), appendix I.

See resolution 50/245.

See CCW/CONF.I/16 (Part I).

See The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, vol. 5: 1980 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.81.IX.4), appendix VII.

United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.IX.8.

A/51/207.

United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.IX.8, para. 35.

A/50/1027, annex.

The Conference of the Committee on Disarmament became the Committee on Disarmament as from the tenth special session of the General Assembly. The Committee on Disarmament was redesignated the Conference on Disarmament as from 7 February 1984.

Resolution 2826 (XXVI), annex.

Resolution 2660 (XXV), annex.

Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/51/42), para. 29 and annex I.

The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, vol. 16: 1991 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.92.IX.1), appendix II.

Ibid., vol. 18: 1993 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.IX.1), appendix II.

1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, Part I (NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I)), annex, decision 3.

Ibid., decision 2.

United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.

See resolution 46/36 L.

A/51/300 and Add.1 and 2.

Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/51/42), annex I.

A/49/316.

Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion (A/51/218, annex); see also Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 4 (A/51/4), paras. 176-183.

The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, vol. 12: 1987 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.88.IX.2), appendix VII.

See A/43/398, annex I.

See A/44/603, annex I.

See International Atomic Energy Agency, Resolutions and Other Decisions of the General Conference, Thirty-fourth Regular Session, 17-21 September 1990 (GC(XXXIV)/RESOLUTIONS (1990)).

Ibid., Thirty-eighth Regular Session, 19-23 September 1994 (GC(XXXVIII)/RES/DEC (1994)).

A/51/131, annex I, para. 20.

See A/46/390, annex I.

See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/51/27), sect. III.F.

Ibid., Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/48/42), annex II.

A/51/218, annex.

A/47/277-S/24111; see Official Records of the Security Council, Forty-seventh Year, Supplement for April, May and June 1992, document S/24111.

A/50/60-S/1995/1, para. 60; see Official Records of the Security Council, Fiftieth Year, Supplement for January, February and March 1995, document S/1995/1.

Ibid., para. 62.

A/51/473-S/1996/839, annex.

A/C.1/51/12, annex.

League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. XCIV (1929), No. 2138.

CD/1064.

A/51/131, annex I.

A/50/408.

A/C.1/51/10, annex.

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