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It also bans trade in some chemicals and restricts it in others (non-signatories will find it increasingly difficult to buy chemicals from CWC members).

Yet its government, embarrassed that the Khan network may have broken no Pakistani laws, used resolution 1540 to justify new export-controls.North Korea says it has pulled out of the NPT and it never signed the CWC.

Of these, Japan and Britain ended their weapons programmes years ago; France and China appear to have quietly destroyed their weapons before signing the CWC; while India and South Korea had not previously admitted to having such weapons.

The continued threat from chemical weapons has led many states to prepare defenses against them and to exert diplomatic pressure on dissenting or noncompliant states to abide by the CWC.

However, not all state parties to the CWC consider herbicides to be chemical weapons, and those states therefore do not recognize their use to be banned by the treaty.

Al Ahly, Egypt Their fourth CWC but progress hampered by cancellation of Egyptian season after Port Said Stadium disaster, when 72 fans died.

The government of Mahinda Rajapakse, Sri Lanka's president, has been hit by the apparent withdrawal of a minor coalition partner, the Ceylon Workers Congress CWCWCeylon Workers Congress CWC

Those who miss the deadline, or have inadequate controls, can expect pointed questions from a special committee, backed by UN-hired experts.Governments that have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty NPTthe the Chemical Weapons Convention CWCC) and the Biological Weapons Convention are already supposed to have such laws on their books, but many have dragged their feet.

Under the Chemical Weapons Convention CWCC) of 1993, the use of chemical weapons in war is prohibited, as is all development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, and transfer of such weapons.

But as a result of a decision taken in a Geneva conference room today, Crusher and its cousins – dubbed "killer robots" – could now be equally on the road to extinction after a vote by the United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons CWCC) which would pave the way to a global ban on autonomous weapons.

U/S Tauscher said she has seen no interest on the part of the other members of the Australia Group in Russian membership given the concerns with respect to Russian implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention CWC and Biological Weapons Convention BWCBWConvention CWC and Biological Weapons Convention BWC