Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus - Prohibition of Working, Production, Accumulation and Use of Chemical Weapons and Its Annihilation Convention (Chemical Convention)

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4. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use
of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction
(Chemical Weapons Convention, CWC)

    The Chemical Weapons Convention was signed on January 13, 1993 by 130 states in Paris. At the present, 174 countries are State Parties to the Convention of which 145 passed instruments of ratification to the Depository, the UN General Secretary. The Parliament of the Republic of Belarus ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention on February 9, 1995.
    The Convention entered into force on April 29, 1997. The term for the CWC is unlimited. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is the consultative and monitoring body of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
    The Republic of Belarus adopted a series of legal acts for the Convention implementation: the Law №130-3 of January 6, 1998 On Export Controls; The Law №105-3 of May 25, 2002 On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Belarus and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons concerning the privileges and immunities of the OPCW; The Council of Ministers Resolution №344 of May 27, 1996 on Implementation of the Convention of January 13, 1993 on the prohibition of chemical weapon development, production, stockpiling and usage and its destruction; and others.
    There are no chemical weapons on the territory of the Republic of Belarus and only one scheduled chemical hydrogen cyanide (cyanic acid) is produced, as stipulated in the Convention. Due to that, the Convention implementation is limited to compliance with obligations regarding chemical weapons bans, taken by the Republic of Belarus, declaration activity and carrying out verification regimes by OPCW.
    In accordance with the CWC requirements, the national body on its implementation is set up in the Republic of Belarus. The Government assigned its responsibilities to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
    The Republic of Belarus was the first State Party that in May, 1997 submitted its CWC declarations to the OPCW containing details regarding the industrial output, processing and consumption of chemicals. Besides, the Republic of Belarus annually submits 2 reports updating initial declarations.
    Altogether, Belarus received 4 CWC inspections of industrial enterprises: the Polymir Production Association (Novopolotsk), the Khimvolokno (Mogilev) and Azot (Grodno) Production Associations and the Lakokraska (Lida) Joint-Stock Company. International inspectors had no claims regarding the compliance with the СWС provisions.
    The Republic of Belarus was elected to the OPCW Executive Council for the period of one year at the first session of the OPCW Conference in May, 1997. In accordance with the agreement reached among the East European regional group of countries represented in the OPCW, the Republic of Belarus will be again represented in the Executive Council in 2006-2008.

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