... significant financial resources, which, despite the difficult situation of the 1990s, were found. All measures to eliminate chemical weapons and their means of delivery were carried out under international control by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
In 1996, the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of March 21, 1996 No. 305 approved the Federal Target Program “Destruction of stockpiles of chemical weapons in the Russian Federation”. According to this document, CW stocks in ...
... the Russian accusations of JIM’s work
are.
Background
There were two
international bodies with regard to alleged use of chemical weapons on the
territory of Syria:
— Fact-Finding
Mission (hereinafter “FFM”), established on the basis of the OPCW authority
under the Chemical Weapons Convention (hereinafter “Convention”) on 29 April
2014;
— OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (hereinafter “JIM”),
established by the Security Council resolution 2235 (2015) on 7 August 2015.
The FFM does not
have the task ...
... the obvious fact that the world reached a breakthrough in chemical disarmament for last 25 years. Almost 200 countries joined the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, which is about 98 percent of the planet. The Organization for the Prohibition of the Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was based on this convention and has already become a watchdog for the liquidation of more than 92 percent of chemical agents and inspected almost five thousands chemical facilities globally. It seemed that the world should make one more decisive ...
... confirmed that said substances are covered by the CWC (substances containing phosphorus-carbon bonds are declareble as Schedule 2 B4 chemicals, and substances which do not contain this bond are listed as “other chemical production facilities.” The OPCW revisited the issue in 2013 and reiterated the absence of any new information, adding that any potential chemicals to be used as chemical weapons are covered by the CWC.
This means that the answer to the
first question
is as follows: at present, there are no reasons to believe that the substances published under the umbrella name of Novichok are suitable for warfare application....
