叙利亚申请加入禁化武公约

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　　U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters the U.N. received a document Thursday from the Syrian government that concerns its accession to the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention.

　　“There is a process to be followed to join the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty and this is a step towards that," said Haq.

　　Haq said the United Nations is translating and reviewing the document.

　　The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 prohibits the development, production, acquisition and use of chemical weapons by signatories. Only seven countries, including Syria, have until now not ratified¹ this treaty.

　　This week, Syria confirmed long-held international suspicions that it possesses chemical weapons.

　　Some published reports say the government of President Bashar al-Assad has more than 1,000 tons of the chemical agents sarin, VX and mustard gas.

　　Syria’s U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari told reporters they have placed this instrument of accession with the U.N. secretary-general, who is the depository for the treaty.

　　“With this, the chapter of the so-called chemical weapons should be ended. And legally speaking, Syria has become - starting today - a full member of the convention," said  Ja’afari.

　　But experts say this is only a first step.

　　Acceding² to the treaty will commit the Syrian government to quickly declare its chemical weapons stockpiles and production facilities. Then, the Organization for the Prohibition³ of Chemical Weapons - which is the implementing⁴ authority for the convention - will need to verify these claims through on-site inspections⁵.

　　Finally, Article 19 of the Treaty says the Convention is subject to ratification⁶ by states that are signatories according to their respective constitutional processes.

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