Foreign media: The United States prohibits the destruction of the last batch of chemical weapons inventory | Declaration | United States
According to Reuters, US President Biden announced on July 7th that the United States has destroyed the last batch of chemical weapons inventory.
According to reports, the world's chemical weapons regulatory agency announced on the same day that with the United States destroying the country's last declared chemical weapons inventory earlier that day, all declared chemical weapons of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have been destroyed.
According to reports, according to the Chemical Weapons Convention approved by the United States Senate in 1997, the United States and other signatory countries must destroy their respective chemical weapon inventories by September 30, 2023.
Biden issued a written statement on the 7th, saying, "Today, I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the last batch of chemical weapons ammunition in its inventory, and we are closer to a world free from chemical weapons terror."
According to reports, the Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Arias, issued a statement on the same day stating, "The destruction of all declared chemical weapon inventories is an important milestone."
He said that the "last country to possess chemical weapons" destroyed their last batch of inventory, which means that "all declared chemical weapon inventories have been verified as irreversibly destroyed.".
But Arias warns that the world must still remain vigilant. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has accused Syria of launching chemical weapon attacks during the civil war in recent years.
Arias said, "Recent incidents of the use and threat of use of toxic chemicals indicate that preventing the recurrence of chemical weapons remains the primary task of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons."
The Russian Embassy in the United States has issued a statement stating that after the destruction of the last batch of declared chemical weapons, US President Biden has stated that he will help the world eliminate the harm caused by deadly weapons. However, the US decision to provide cluster ammunition to Ukraine goes against this statement. Call on the US not to politicize the activities of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and not to use this international organization for chemical weapons disarmament as a weapon against countries opposing US policies.
In addition, according to the report of Russian Sputnik News Agency on July 8, Biden appealed to countries that have not yet joined the Chemical Weapons Convention to do so, and again accused Russia and Syria of having so-called "undeclared" military chemical plans. Both countries have repeatedly denied this accusation.
According to reports, Russia completely destroyed its chemical weapons inventory on September 27, 2017.
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction officially entered into force on April 29, 1997. The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is located in The Hague, Netherlands.
