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Status of multilateral arms regulation and disarmament agreements
Agreement on Adaptation
adopted and Signed at iStanbul: 19 November 1999
not yet in force i
new SignatorieS: None
total number of SignatorieS: 30
new partieS: None
total number of partieS: 3
Treaty on Open Skies
Signed at helSinki: 24 March 1992
entered into force: 1 January 2002
depoSitary: Canada and Hungary
new partieS: None
total number of partieS: 34
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production,
Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC)
Signed at pariS: 13 January 1993
entered into force: 29 April 1997
depoSitary: Secretary-General of the United Nations
new partieS: None
total number of partieS: 188
Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty
(Bangkok Treaty)
Signed at bangkok: 15 December 1995
entered into force: 27 March 1997
depoSitary: Thailand
new partieS: None
total number of partieS: 10
African Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone Treaty (Pelindaba Treaty)
Signed at cairo: 11 April 1996
entered into force: 15 July 2009
depoSitary: Secretary-General of the African Union
new partieS: Ghana —27 June
total number of partieS: 32
“3. Each of the Protocols annexed to this Convention shall enter into force six
months after the date by which twenty States have notified their consent to be
bound by it in accordance with paragraph 3 or 4 of Article 4 of this Convention.”
i Article 31, paragraph 3, states:
“This Agreement on Adaptation shall enter into force 10 days after instruments of
ratification have been deposited by all States Parties listed in the Preamble, after
which time the Treaty shall exist only in its amended form.”
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