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It prohibits the use of Chemical Weapon s and Biological Weapon s, but has nothing to say about production, storage or transfer. Later treaties did cover these aspects -- the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention . A number of countries submitted reservations when becoming parties to the Geneva Protocol declaring that they only regarded the non-use obligations as applying to other parties and that these obligations would cease to apply if the prohibited weapons were used against them. HISTORY The first modern use of chemical weapons was by Germany in Ypres , Belgium in 1915 by releasing Chlorine Gas . The Treaty Of Versailles included some provisions that banned Germany from either manufacturing or importing chemical weapons. Similar treaties banned Austria , Bulgaria , and Hungary from chemical weapons. At the end of World War I, the Allies wanted to reaffirm the Treaty of Versailles, and the United States introduced the Treaty Of Washington . The United States Senate gave consent for ratification but it failed to enter into force. France objected to the submarine provisions of the treaty and thus the treaty failed. At the 1925 Geneva Conference for the Supervision of the International Traffic in Arms the French suggested a protocol for non-use of poisonous gases. Poland suggested the addition of bacteriological weapons. It was signed on June 17th. CHEMICAL WEAPONS PROHIBITIONS EXTERNAL LINKS |
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