Samoa ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention Sept. 27, becoming the 147^th country to do so (see GSN, Sept. 20).  It signed the CWC in 1993.  There are 27 states that have signed the convention but not yet ratified it (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons release, Oct. 3).

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