The Federal Republic of Azerbaijan ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention on the 29th of February 2000. The Federal Republic of Azerbaijan will become the 131st State Party to the Convention on the 30th of March 2000, thirty days after depositing its instrument of ratification with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in New York.
Membership of the Convention has now more than doubled from the 65 member states that were required to bring it into force. There are now only 60 countries left that have not ratified the CWC, 40 of these have signed the convention.
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