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Cooperation of Uzbekistan in the framework of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and their Destruction (CCW) is the first effective multilateral agreement in the field of disarmament, which provides liquidation under the international control of one kind of the weapon of mass destruction, including objects of its production, and also sets restrictions on trade in chemical substances.
The Republic of Uzbekistan signed the Convention on November 24, 1995 and ratified it on April 26, 1996, becoming the 60th state-participant of the OPCW. On July 23, 1996 the ratification letter was transferred for the depositary of the Convention - the Secretary General of the United Nations. On December 10, 2001 the Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Belgium Mr. Alisher Shaykhov was accredited as the Constant Representative of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the OPCW.
As soon as the convention came into power on April 27, 1997, the national body - the Commission of the Cabinet of Ministers on realization of Conventions the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical, Bacteriological and Toxic Weapons and their Destruction was created in the Republic. The Agency "Sanoatkontexnazorat" is appointed as the Secretariat of the Commission.
According to the requirements of the Convention the initial announcement of the cumulative national data on chemicals and corresponding objects was submitted to the OPCW Secretariat. The announcements of the activity of the past calendar year are sent to the OPCW annually.
After the introduction of the Convention, since 1998 the OPCW has begun to inspect the objects of the Republic with the purpose of checking the conformity of the activity of Uzbekistan to the CCW requirements.
The representatives of the Republic of Uzbekistan annually take part in work of sessions of the Conference of the OPCW states-participants, regional seminars, training courses. Regional seminar of national bodies of the Central Asian states on practical realization of the Convention is to be held in Tashkent, in September 2003.
New challenges to security raise an urgency of participation of Uzbekistan in that international institution.