Sentences with phrase «chemical weapons ban»

Yet at last year's Geneva talks on a chemical weapons ban, the Soviet Union said it had made no such weapons since 1987.

Not exact matches

Officials from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons told the Obama administration early this year that its inspectors had found traces of two banned chemical weapons during an inspection of the Syrian government's Scientific Studies and Research Center in the district of Barzeh near Damascus, two administration officials Chemical Weapons told the Obama administration early this year that its inspectors had found traces of two banned chemical weapons during an inspection of the Syrian government's Scientific Studies and Research Center in the district of Barzeh near Damascus, two administration officials chemical weapons during an inspection of the Syrian government's Scientific Studies and Research Center in the district of Barzeh near Damascus, two administration officials told us.

As the United States and its allies contemplate military action against Syria for gassing its own people, Syria is poised to chair the United Nations committee responsible for banning chemical weapons.

Are any non-military actions, such as bans of exports of certain chemical weapon ingredients, being considered?

FWIW, there are also international agreements banning the use of incendiary weapons, I believe, for similar reasons to chemical weapons (uncontrollable, indiscriminately harms civilians, etc).

Chemical weapons, like certain other kinds of weapons are banned not because of people killed by them, but because of what they do to the survivors.

When the next Labour government attends the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York, it will be supporting a nuclear weapons convention or ban, similar to those for chemical or biological weapons?

I support a global ban on such weapons as part of our commitment to nuclear disarmament, as was successful with other weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons.

No kidding but he's going to think twice before using banned chemical weapons again.

Hodgkin sent Thatcher a petition in 1986 to ban chemical weapons.

Personally, I have a pet project — a worldwide ban on correlational studies, kind of like with chemical weapons, etc..

As AI researchers, the signatories compare themselves to chemists, biologists, and physicists who had «no interest in building chemical or biological weapons» and therefore supported the treaties banning chemical and biological weapons, as well as space - based nuclear weapons and blinding laser weapons.