Twelfth lunar month twenty (Renshen years), January 13, 1993, the signing of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.



Chinese Foreign Minister Qian (middle), signed the Convention on behalf of the Chinese the
after more than 24 years of negotiations, "Prohibition of the Development, Production, (on TodayOnHistory.com) a signatory to the Convention, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction weapons "(referred to as the" Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) on the afternoon of January 13, 1993, the General Assembly held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The foreign ministers and government representatives from more than 120 countries around the world attended the meeting, which most countries in the Convention was signed, Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen on behalf of the Chinese government to sign the Convention.
"Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons" is by far the world's first multilateral disarmament agreement involves a total ban on the development, production, stockpiling and use of mass destruction of chemical weapons. So, signing the convening of the General Assembly has aroused widespread concern around the world.
chemical weapons as a weapon of mass destruction, the international community to seek their effective control has a fairly long history. Held twice in 1899 and 1907 Hague Peace Conference, reached a unanimous agreement to prohibit the use in war of artillery shells containing poison. (����d��y����h�� $ �Ө�ry.c��m) However, these early agreements were torn in the First World War. During the First World War, chemical weapons were used on a large scale, causing huge casualties. Out of hatred of chemical weapons, the international community through the efforts, in 1925, reached a "Protocol prohibits the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous and other gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (Geneva Protocol). Protocol congenitally deficient, however, failed to effectively ban the production and storage of chemical weapons, resulting in all States Parties shall be entitled to retain chemical weapons, many of which the State party also announced to retain the retaliatory use and the right to use by non-parties, and the resulting chemical weapons ban and more than the situation.
"The signing of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has experienced 24 years of tough negotiations course. For an early conclusion of the Convention, the first session of the Disarmament in 1978, the special session of the General Assembly to the Chemical Weapons Convention negotiations as the most urgent task of the multilateral disarmament negotiations. Since then, the international community has conducted a number of efforts. However, in the prevailing international situation, the countries pointing fingers at each other, who do not want to fulfill the obligations of the respective chemical weapons destruction the Convention negotiations falter, little progress has been made. Until 90 early, drastic changes of the international situation, the negotiation process of the Convention before a turnaround and eventual agreement. Strict verification regime to the Convention, to require any State Party shall not development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons; any countries that possess chemical weapons should be destroyed within 10 years of its possession of chemical weapons and their production facilities; States Parties shall be responsible for the destruction of its all chemical weapons left in the territory of another State. Achieve these aims of the Convention contribute to the maintenance of international security and peace, and the complete elimination of the threat of chemical warfare. The reached
Convention has brought new hope to the people of the world, mankind has taken an important step toward the goal of the world of chemical weapons. However, the realization of the aims and objectives of the Convention is still a daunting task in front of people all over the world. The (history TodayOnHistory.com)
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