By Prashanth Parameswaran
The government ratifies the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Myanmar has ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and will become the 191st member of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the global watchdog announced Thursday.
The move represents another step in the country’s ongoing reform process. Since a new quasi-civilian government took power in 2011 after five decades of military rule, the country has been reviewing Myanmar’s participation in international legal instruments including disarmament related conventions. In that vein, Myanmar signed the additional protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency in connection with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2013 and became a state party to the Biological Weapons Convention following ratification in December 2014.
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