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What percentage of the 188 States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention have designated national authorities to date?
[Answer: 98 percent; 184 of 188]
Which two States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) recently designated national authorities, bringing the total to 184 of 188 States Parties to have established or designated national authorities as of 15 October 2009?
[Answer: Barbados and Lebanon]
Which of the 188 States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) became the 182nd to designate a national authority, on 22 September 2009?
[Answer: Comoros]
As of August 19, 2009, how many of the 188 States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention have established or designated a National Authority?
[Answer: 181]
What nation became the 188th State Party to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) on 21 April 2009?
[Answer: The Bahamas]
Now that the Dominican Republic has ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), how many CWC States Parties are there?
[Answer: 187]
What nation became the 186th State Party to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention on January 13, 2009?
[Answer: Iraq]
Since Lebanon joined the Chemical Weapons Convention in November, how many countries have not yet ratified or acceded to the CWC? [Answer: 10 (signed but not ratified: Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Israel, Myanmar; neither signed nor ratified: Angola, Egypt, Iraq, North Korea, Somalia, Syria)
To date, what percentage of the world's declared amounts of chemical weapons have been destroyed?
[Answer: Over 41 percent.]
Before Condoleezza Rice’s visit in 2008, who was the last U.S. Secretary of State to visit Libya?
[Answer: Secretary John Foster Dulles in 1953, during the Eisenhower administration ]
What was the most recent State Party to ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)?
[Answer: Guinea-Bissau on 20 May 2008 ]
Which State Party to the Chemical Weapons Convention is the only one to have completely destroyed its stocks of chemical weapons?
[Answer: Albania ]
Who currently serves as the head of the BWC Implementation Support Unit?
[Answer: Mr. Richard Lennane]
As of February 2008, how many of the 183 States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) have established or designated National Authorities?
[Answer: 176]
Who was elected Chair for the 2008 Meeting of Experts and Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention?
[Answer: Ambassador Georgi Avramchev of Macedonia ]
How many of the 182 OPCW States Parties participated in the recent Twelfth Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention?
[Answer: 116]
What was the most recent State Party to ratify the Biological Weapons Convention?
[Answer: Gabon, in 2007, bringing the total number of BWC States Parties to 159]
What percentage of the population is represented by the OPCW Member States?
[Answer: 98%]
How many states are signatories to the BWC?
[Answer: 156]
The newest State Party to the CWC is located on which continent?
[Answer: Africa]
How many states are States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention?
[Answer: 154]
What Pacific Island Forum member is the latest state to join the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)?
[Answer: The Solomon Islands]
What is the full title of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)?
[Answer: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction
What two states most recently joined the Chemical Weapons Convention as States Parties?
[Answer: Kyrgyzstan and Cape Verde]
What state is the most recent member to join the Chemical Weapons Convention?
[Answer: Afghanistan]
What five states recently acceded or ratified the CWC, bringing the total number of States Parties to 150?
[Answer: St Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Thailand, Palau (effective March 5) and Guatemala (effective March 14)]
What two States Parties recently acceded the Biological Weapons Convention, bringing the total number of States Parties to 146?
[Answer: The Holy See (January 2002) and Morocco (March 2002)]
As of December 31, 2001, which two countries were the most recent States to ratify or accede to the CWC?
[Answer: Nauru ratified the CWC on November 12, 2001; Uganda ratified it on November 30, 2001. Each State became a State Party 30 days after its ratification.]
What do Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, North Korea and Syria all have in common?
[Answer: They all are selected nonmembers of the CWC.]
How many signatory states are there to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Biological and Toxin Weapons (BTWC)?
[Answer: 16 (Burundi, Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Gabon, Guyana, Haiti, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Somalia, Syria, Tanzania, and the United Arab Emirates)
Which state will become the 169th State Party to the Chemical Weapons Convention on 3 July 2005?
[Answer: Grenada]
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