Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
* [Reproduced from the text provided by the United Nations. As of May 13, 1993, the Convention had been signed by 144 states, and instruments of ratification had been deposited by Fiji, Mauritius, and Seychelles.
[The U.N. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction entered into force on March 26, 1975; it appears at 11 I.L.M. 309 (1972). U.N. General Assembly Resolution 2827 (XXVI), which directed the Committee on Disarmament to continue negotiations regarding chemical weapons, was adopted on December 16,1971 and appears at 11 I.L.M. 418 (1972). The Final Declaration adopted on January 11, 1989, at the Conference of States Parties to the 1925 Geneva Protocol and Other Interested Parties on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is reproduced at 28 I.L.M. 1920 (1990); the 1925 Geneva Protocol appears at 14 I.L.M. 49 (1975).]