During the Fifty-ninth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, the General Assembly’s First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) adopted a resolution on the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). The resolution, sponsored by Poland and adopted unanimously, appreciated the ongoing work to achieve the objective and purpose of the CWC and expressed its determination to achieve the effective prohibition of the development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and their destruction.
The First Committee noted with satisfaction that the total number of States Parties to the CWC had risen to one hundred and sixty-six and called upon all States that have not yet done so to become parties to the CWC without delay. The First Committee stressed that the Convention and its implementation contribute to enhancing international peace and security, and emphasized that its full, universal and effective implementation will contribute further to that purpose and represents an important contribution to the efforts of the United Nations in the global fight against terrorism.
The First Committee underlined the importance to the Convention’s purpose of the inclusion of all possessors of chemical weapons, chemical weapons production facilities or chemical weapons development facilities, including previously-declared possessor States, among the States Parties to the Convention. Progress to that end was to be welcomed.
The Committee also noted with appreciation the progress made by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) towards achieving universal adherence to the Convention.
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