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Chemical Weapons Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1013 words) |
 | The current agreement is administered by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is often mistaken for being part of the UN, although it is independent of it. |
| The convention is administered by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which conducts inspection of military and industrial plants in all of the member nations as well as working with stockpile countries. |
| Examples of these substances are phosgene, which has been used as a chemical weapon but which is also a precursor in the manufacture of many legitimate organic compounds and triethanolamine, used in the manufacture of nitrogen mustard but also commonly used in toiletries and detergents. |
| Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (512 words) |
| Between its formation in 1997, and 2002, the OPCW was widely seen as a highly effective organization under its first Director-General José Bustani, so much so that he was unanimously re-elected in 2000 a year early. |
| The related event at the time was the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its official pretext of Iraq's possesion of weapons of mass destruction, which were taken to include chemical weapons. |
| The OPCW was known to have been actively pursuing its mandate by negotiating with Iraq's leaders for their cooperation with the Chemical Weapons Convention, and this would have included inspections that could have verified their compliance with disarmament obligations, and jeapardized the case for war. |
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