Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

Myanmar may have chemical weapons stockpile: US

Myanmar is in breach of a global convention banning chemical weapons and may have a stockpile left over from the 1980s, the United States (US) said on Monday.The Southeast Asian nation may still have weapons at a "historic" facility where mustard gas was produced, a senior State Department official told the annual meeting of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).Myanmar officially joined the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which bans the production, stor

26 November 2019
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