Here at HSP, we have finished producing a Resource Guide for the Second CWC Review Conference. The Guide is based on the Briefing Book that we, along with BASIC and VERTIC, produced for the Sixth BWC Review Conference in 2006. We got such good feedback for the BWC Briefing Book, that we decided to produce something similar for the CWC RevCon this year.
Production of the Resource Guide has been generously funded by the ministries of foreign affairs of the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK. The Guide is basically a compilation of official documents from various organizations related to the CWC. Our aim in producing it was to provide RevCon delegates and interested observers with a “one-stop shop” for documents of relevance to the RevCon. We explain the purpose and contents of the Resource Guide on the back cover of the book:
This Resource Guide is intended to aid delegates to the Second Review
Conference of the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention and thus contribute
to a constructive and successful outcome. The conference will be held
7-18 April 2008 in The Hague, the Netherlands.This book contains official documents and other texts relating to the
chemical weapons regime, including:
- The text of related treaties and agreements
- Some official documents from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
- Documents from the United Nations, other international organisations
and regional organisations- Documents from informal instruments and arrangements
- Supporting material from various non-governmental organisations
It will also be a useful resource for researchers, non-governmental organisations, journalists and others in civil society with an interest in the chemical weapons regime embodied in the CWC.
Printing of the 430-page Guide should be finished this week and it will be available in hard-copy and on CD at the Second CWC Review Conference which begins in The Hague on 7 April. Additionally, copies will mailed to national delegations of CWC states parties. The Guide is also available here, either as one big pdf file (4.3 Mb) or section-by-section for smaller downloads:
Table of Contents & Introduction
Chapter 4 – Documents from Other International Organizations
Chapter 5 – Documents from Regional & Other Organizations/Regions
Chapter 6 – Documents from Other Arrangements
We are once again very grateful to our funders for supporting the production of this Guide and we hope it will prove useful at the RevCon and beyond.
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