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Mr. Santiago Oñate Laborde
Legal Adviser
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Biography 
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Arms Control and Disarmament
The Chemical Weapons Convention: an Overview
In the present lecture I will present a brief description of the Chemical Weapons Convention focusing on the rights and duties of its States Parties, and on its implementation.
An overview of the evolution of the Convention during the past twelve years will emphasize the way in which States Parties have up-dated the provisions of the Convention in order to maintain it as an effective instrument for disarmament and non-proliferation.
La convención de armas químicas
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Arms Control and Disarmament
The Chemical Weapons Convention: an Overview
A. Legal Instruments
Strasbourg Agreement (first international agreement banning the use of chemical weapons), 27 August 1675.
Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (Geneva Protocol), Geneva, 17 June 1925.
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction, London, 10 April 1972, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1015, p.163.
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, Geneva, 3 September 1992, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1974, p. 45.
General Assembly resolution 47/39 of 30 November 1992 ( Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction).
B. Documents
La convención de armas químicas
A. Instrumentos jurídicos
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