Annual Compliance Report to Congress

Annual Compliance Report to Congress in 2011

United States views on international law (based on the document “Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law”): In August 2011, the State Department released its annual report to Congress on compliance by parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (“CWC”). The report is submitted in accordance with one of the conditions of Senate ratification to the CWC in 1997, condition 10(c). Of 188 States Parties to the CWC, the 2011 report addressed compliance issues with six: China, Denmark, Iran, Iraq, Libya, and the Russian Federation. The full report is available at (internet link) state.gov/t/avc/rls/rpt/170444.htm.

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• Use Of Force
• Arms Control
• Disarmament
• Nonproliferation
• Chemical Weapons
• Biological Weapons
• Chemical Weapons