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Excerpted from the Inventory of International Organizations
and Regimes 2001 published by the CNS International Organizations and Nonproliferation
Project. A complete PDF copy of the 2000 edition of the Inventory is available in the Publications section of the NTI website.
Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous,
or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (Geneva Protocol)
Opened for signature: 17 June 1925.
Entered into force: for each
signatory as from the date of deposit of its instrument of ratification or
accession.
Number of Parties: 133 states.
Depositary: France.
Protocol obligations: prohibition of the use in war of
asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases, and of bacteriological methods of
warfare.
Most of the parties in joining the Geneva Protocol made reservations to the
effect that they would abide by the terms of the Protocol as long as other
states did not resort to the use of CW.
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