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The Chemical Weapons Convention

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The Chemical Weapons Convention is one of the cornerstone disarmament and arms control agreements, and the only global and comprehensive disarmament treaty that is being verified by an international agency. This Commentary assesses the provisions of the Convention and its implementation, with cross-cutting chapters providing a broader analysis.

Walter Krutzsch is a retired lawyer. From 1984 he participated for the German Democratic Republic in the negotiations on the Chemical Weapons Convention; during three years as chairman of one of the three working groups of the negotiation committee. At the end of the negotiations he assisted the commission's chairman in drafting the final treaty text. Between 1994 and 1999he contributed to the work of the provisional Technical Secretariat of the OPCW. Eric Myjer is Professor of Conflict and Security Law at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). Furthermore he is a member of the Dutch government Standing Advisory Committee on Issues of Public International Law and a member of the International Law Association's Committee on the Use of Force. He is co-editor in chief of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law. He is also Judge (locum) at The Hague Court of Appeal. He has written extensively on topics of arms control law like in Issues of Arms Control Law and the Chemical Weapons Convention (Martinus Nijhoff, 2001), which he edited and co-authored. Ralf Trapp is an independent disarmament consultant living in France. He is a chemist by training and has worked with the GDR Academy of Sciences, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) Ebenhausen and the OPCW. He was a technical adviser to the GDR CD delegation from 1983 to 1989, and in 1992 joined the German delegation to the CD during the final negotiations of the CWC. Between 1993 and 2006, he held senior positions at OPCW in industry verification, verification policy, international cooperation, government relations /political affairs and in the preparation and conduct of the two CWC Review Conferences. He also served as Secretary of the OPCW Scientific Advisory Board. He has published widely on issues related to chemical weapons disarmament. In 2006, he was elected external member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna.