SYRIA JOINS OPCW CONVENTION
Syria officially joined the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons(OPCW), United Nations convention banning chemical weapons. This made the country the 190th state party to the OPCW. Only six states have yet to sign the international treaty.
Statistics from OPCW=
Statistics from OPCW=
190 nations, 98% of the global population, have joined the OPCW.
58,172, or 81.71%, of the world's declared stockpile of 71,196 metric tonnes of chemical agent have been destroyed.
5,286 inspections have taken place at 228 chemical weapon-related and 1,905 industrial sites on the territory of 86 States Parties since April 1997. Worldwide, 4,913 industrial facilities are liable to inspection.
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