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Updated October 2008
Chemical Chronology
2008
18 April 2008
In the final document of the Second CWC Review Conference the member states of the OPCW call upon Egypt and all other states not yet party to the Convention to to ratify or accede to it as a matter of urgency and without preconditions, in the interests of enhancing their own national security as well as affirming their commitment to global peace and security and to the object and purpose of the Convention.
—Report of the Second Special Session of the Conference of the States Parties to Review the Operation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (Second Review Conference), RC-2/4, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, 18 April 2008, p. 8, para. 9.16, <http://www.opcw.org/docs/csp/rc2/en/rc204(e).pdf>.
15 June 2008
Egyptian and Japanese officials meet in Cairo for consultations on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss wide-ranging issues on disarmament and non-proliferation including nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, biological and chemical weapons, and conventional weapons.
—Japan-Egypt Consultations on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan website, 13 June 2008, <http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/event/2008/6/1180705_936.html>.
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