Major International Instruments on Disarmament and Related Issues
Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems, 26 May 1972; and Protocol, 3 July 1974

 1 December 1959

Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone , 15 December 1995; Annex and Protocol
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction, 10 April 1972
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, 13 January 1993
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects, 10 October 1980; and Additional Protocol (IV) on Blinding Laser Weapons, 12 October 1995

Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects

Protocol II as amended on 3 May 1996

      General title United Nations Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects.

      Forum of adoption Meeting of States Parties to the 1980 Convention, 28 November 2003

      NOT YET IN FORCE

Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
10 September 1996

 The Chemical Weapons Convention or, as the complete title reads, the "Convention on the Prohibition of the Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction" was opened for signature in Paris, France on 13 January 1993. The CWC is the product of more than twenty years of negotiations at the Conference of Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland.

It is one of the most complex international conventions ever negotiated. It contains a Preamble, twenty-four Articles and three Annexes with a total of more than 140 densely printed pages

Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any other hostile use of Environmental Modification Techniques, 10 December 1976
Geneva Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, 12 August 1949
Geneva Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, 12 August 1949
Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 12 August 1949
Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, 12 August 1949
Revision of NSG London Guidelines of 1977, 1 Aprile 1993
Guidelines for Nuclear Transfers Adopted by the 15-Nation Nuclear Suppliers' Group, 21 September 1977
Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and other Celestial Bodies, 18 December 1979
Convention on the prohibition of the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and on their destruction, 18 September 1997

Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities  of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and other Celestial Bodies, 27 January 1967

Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, 5 August 1963
Treaty on the Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Africa 
(Pelindaba Treaty), 11 April 1996; and
Cairo Declaration
Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. Final act and Protocol
Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, 8 June 1977
Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, 8 June 1977
Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating,
  Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare,  17 June 1925
South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Rarotonga), 6 August 1985
Decisions and Resolution Adopted by the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 11 May 1995

The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties

The Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms and associated documents
The Treaty between the United States of America and the Unione of Soviet Socialist Republics on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms and associated documents
Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests
Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 
in Latin America (Tlatelolco Treaty), 14 February 1967
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1 July 1968
Guidelines for transfers of nuclear-related dual-use equipment, material and related technology, 3 April 1992
'Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty'