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The Laws of Arms Control and Disarmament

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This text outlines various disarmament treaties aimed at reducing the harm caused by military weaponry and ensuring environmental protection. Key agreements include the 1976 Convention prohibiting hostile environmental modification, the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons with several protocols addressing excessive injuries and indiscriminate effects, and the 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention. The 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mines Convention further emphasize efforts to control dangerous weapons. Other significant treaties include the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, the 2010 Central African Convention on Small Arms, the 2013 Arms Trade Treaty, and the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

ย DISARMAMENT TREATIES

1. Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques. New York, 10 December 1976

2. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (with Protocols I, II and III). Geneva, 10 October 1980

2. a). Additional Protocol to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (Protocol IV, entitled Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons). Vienna, 13 October 1995
2. b). Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices as amended on 3 May 1996 (Protocol II, as amended on 3 May 1996) annexed to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects. Geneva, 3 May 1996
2. c). Amendment to Article I of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects. Geneva, 21 December 2001
2. d). Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (Protocol V). Geneva, 28 November 2003

3. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction. Geneva, 3 September 1992

4. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. New York, 10 September 1996

5. Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction. Oslo, 18 September 1997

6. Convention on Cluster Munitions. Dublin, 30 May 2008

7. Central African Convention for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, their Ammunition and all Parts and Components that can be used for their Manufacture, Repair and Assembly. Kinshasa, 30 April 2010

8. Arms Trade Treaty. New York, 2 April 2013

9. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (New York, 7 July 2017)

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