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New Treaty Targets WMD Smuggling on Aircraft
Signatories to a pact finalized Friday in China would be expected to establish criminal penalties against the air-based transfer of weapons of mass destruction and their constituent parts, the U.S. State Department announced (see GSN, July 1).
A U.S. delegate signed the 2010 Beijing Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Relating to International Civil Aviation.
“This treaty will strengthen our efforts to ensure that extraordinarily dangerous materials, such as biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons, will not be transported via civil aircraft for illicit purposes and if such attempts are made, those responsible will be held accountable under the law,” U.S. acting Assistant Secretary of State Vann Van Diepen said (U.S. State Department release, Sept. 14).
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NTI Analysis
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2011 NIS Nuclear Trafficking
April 26, 2012
The NIS Nuclear Trafficking Collection highlights proliferation-significant cases of nuclear materials diversion, and includes abstracts on all reported instances of trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials in or from the Newly Independent States from 1991 to the present.
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2010 NIS Nuclear Trafficking
April 24, 2012
The NIS Nuclear Trafficking Collection highlights proliferation-significant cases of nuclear materials diversion, and includes abstracts on all reported instances of trafficking in nuclear and radioactive materials in or from the Newly Independent States from 1991 to the present.
Country Profile
China
This article provides an overview of China’s historical and current policies relating to nuclear, chemical, biological and missile proliferation.
