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The treaty was negotiated in New York City at a global conference under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) from 2–27 July 2012. [5] As it was not possible to reach an agreement on a final text at that time, a new meeting for the conference was scheduled for 18–28 March 2013. [6] On 2 April 2013, the UN General Assembly adopted the ATT ...
A variety of treaties and agreements have been enacted to regulate the use, development and possession of various types of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Treaties may regulate weapons use under the customs of war (Hague Conventions, Geneva Protocol), ban specific types of weapons (Chemical Weapons Convention, Biological Weapons Convention), limit weapons research (Partial Test Ban Treaty ...
Comprehensively ban biological weapons Chemical Weapons Convention [3] 1997 193 1 Comprehensively ban chemical weapons Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty [4] 1963 126 10 Ban all nuclear weapons tests except for those conducted underground: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [5] 1970 191 0
All UN Member States The resolution establishes the obligations under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter for all Member States to develop and enforce appropriate legal and regulatory measures against the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons and their means of delivery, in particular, to non-state actors.
Mexico became the first state to deposit the treaty on February 11, 1982. The treaty came into force on December 2, 1983. Since April 10, 1982, states that did not sign the treaty can now only accede to it. The instrument of ratification, accession, or succession is deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; List of parties to the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material; Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement; List of parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons; Protocol I
In a speech there, President Obama said "too many of our children are being taken away from us" as a result of gun violence. In Houston, another hard-hit city, the mayor supports banning assault rifles and high-capacity magazines but said, "I do not support restricting the right to continue to hold a legally obtained conceal to carry license ...
A nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) is defined by the United Nations as an agreement that a group of states has freely established by treaty or convention that bans the development, manufacturing, control, possession, testing, stationing or transporting of nuclear weapons in a given area, that has mechanisms of verification and control to enforce its obligations, and that is recognized as such ...