Chemical Weapons Convention Bulletin
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The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) was opened for signature on 10 April 1972 and entered into force on 26 March 1975 with the United Kingdom, the United States and the former Soviet Union as the depositary governments. The Convention is to eliminate biological weapons and prohibit their development, production, stockpiling, acquisition and retention. It has 15 articles. The initial ones address the prohibition. Article X addresses the peaceful uses of biology and the minimizing of the impact of the Convention on peaceful activities. It is apparent that whilst the purpose of the Convention is to eliminate and prohibit biological weapons, the Convention was drafted so as to strike a balance between the effective elimination of biological weapons on the one hand and avoiding the hampering of peaceful activities in biology on the other. There is consequently an undertaking in Article III to do nothing to aid the proliferation of biological weapons:
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