NOUN
- a global treaty banning the production or acquisition or stockpiling or transfer or use of chemical weapons
How To Use Chemical Weapons Convention In A Sentence
- We committed ourselves to arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation and to the conclusion of a chemical weapons convention this year.
- In 1997, the U.S. and 65 other countries signed the Chemical Weapons Convention.
- Unsurprisingly, we are also selling to the Gaddafi government in Libya, another nation which has not signed the Chemical Weapons Convention.
- We committed ourselves to arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation and to the conclusion of a chemical weapons convention this year.
- As a result, stocks of chemicals that are restricted or banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention are lying around unguarded, literally waiting for terrorists to take them.
- The sale of these chemicals is strictly controlled by the international chemical weapons convention, to which Britain is a signatory, and any sale to nations that may use them as a weapon of war is illegal.
- They clearly violate the spirit of existing treaties as well as the pro posed Chemical Weapons Convention, which is now before the Senate.