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INTERNATIONAL/BILATERAL AGREEMENTS

April 10, 1972. Belarus signed the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).

March 26, 1975. Belarus deposited instruments of ratification of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).

July 31, 1991. Belarus signed the START I Treaty.

June 26, 1992. Belarus signed the Minsk Accord on CIS export control coordination. The Minsk Accord is important because, in principle, it provides a forum for coordinated export control policy amongst the Newly Independent States. In practice, however, it has meant very little. Although there have been a number of CIS meetings at which export controls have been discussed, very few steps have been taken by the signatories to coordinate export control policy.

January 13, 1993. Belarus signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

February 4, 1993. Belarus ratified the START I Treaty.

July 22, 1993. Belarus signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) as a non-nuclear-weapon state party.

January 1995. Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia concluded a joint Customs Union. The primary result of the Customs Union is that it abolishes tariffs on trade between the three countries. Belarus and Russia are currently working to integrate their two customs systems. In addition, the Customs Union may eventually result in the removal of checkpoints along the Belarus-Russia border.

April 4, 1995. Belarus signed a draft Safeguards Agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The agreement entered into force on July 31, 1995.

March 29, 1996. Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia signed a Treaty on Deepening Integration in Economic and Humanitarian Fields. According to the treaty, the four countries must form three interstate executive agencies: an Interstate Council, a Committee on Integration, and an Interparliamentary Committee.[50]

April 2, 1996. Belarus and Russia signed an agreement on the establishment of a Community of Two States.[51]

May 16, 1996. The Interstate Council, established under the Treaty on Deepening Economic Integration, approved a program for the creation of a single customs territory between Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia.

July 11, 1996. Belarus ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

September 24, 1996. Belarus signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

Belarus is not a member of the Nuclear Supplier's Group, the Missile Technology Control Regime, or the new Wassenaar Arrangement.

Sources:
[50] Ural Latypov, "Integration in the CIS and Problems of Export Control," The Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer 1996.
[51] Ibid.

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