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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In November 2012 the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will
host its 17th annual Conference of the States Parties in The Hague to review recent progress
in the global elimination of chemical weapons. As the international implementing agency
for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), the OPCW has overseen the safe and verified
demilitarization of more than 50,000t of chemical agents and almost four million weapons and
containers in six countries since the CWC's entry into force in April 1997.
This represents about 71% of the declared chemical weapons stockpiles-72,669t-in seven
possessor countries. The great bulk, 95%, of these stockpiles resided in the United States and
the Russian Federation, which had declared 28,577t and 40,000t respectively. The remaining
4,052t were declared primarily by India and the Republic of Korea, with Albania declaring 16t
and Libya 24t.
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