| 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 | ||
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1 December 1959 |
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| 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 | ||
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Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, 13 January 1993 | |
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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 | |
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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 |
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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. |
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Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban
Treaty 10 September 1996 |
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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 |
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| 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 | ||
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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 |
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| Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, 5 August 1963 | ||
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Treaty on the Nuclear-Weapon-Free
Zone in Africa (Pelindaba Treaty), 11 April 1996; and Cairo Declaration |
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| 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 | ||
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Protocol for the Prohibition of the
Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, 17 June 1925 |
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| 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 | ||
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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 | ||
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Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests | |
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Treaty for the Prohibition of
Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Tlatelolco Treaty), 14 February 1967 |
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| 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 | ||
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'Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty' | |