| Author | Message | | Guest | | Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2002 6:10 am Post subject: Israel Non-signatory to 1972 BWC, 1968 NPT and 1997 MBC |
| Subj: Israel Non-signatory to 1972 BWC, 1968 NPT and 1997 MBC
Date: 10/29/02 10:04:32 PM Pacific Standard Time
BTW, speaking of weapons, and chemical and biological weapons lately,
Israel is a NON-SIGNATORY to the 1972 BWC, and also a NON-SIGNATORY to
the 1968 NPT, Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, and not to mention the
convention on Landmines or Anti-Personal Mines, MBC 1997 Convention on
the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of
Anti-personnel Mines on Their Destruction (Mine-Ban Convention)
Now I truly understand why that French ambassador to Britain, Daniel
Bernard, called Israel a "shitty little country," adding, "Why should
the world be in danger of World War III because of those people?" He was
right. And he is justified. He also had no intentions of "Mr Bernard has
not denied the remark". And in terms of an apology, "He doesn't feel
there is any need for him to do so," an French embassy spokesman said.
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1972 BWC Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, 1968 NPT, Nuclear
Proliferation Treaty
http://disarmament.un.org/TreatyStatus.nsf
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BWC Signatures, Ratifications and Accessions
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsp/biologic.html
For ease of reference, states that have ratified or acceded are
numbered, while signatory states awaiting ratification are unnumbered
and indented. States are in the alphabetical order
used in United Nations documents. Dates given are the earliest date of
deposit of the relevant instrument with any of the depositaries.
1.Afghanistan signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 26 March 1975
2.Albania acceded 3 June 1992
3.Argentina signed 1 August 1972 and ratified 23 November 1979
4.Armenia acceded 7 June 1994
5.Australia signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 5 October 1977
6.Austria signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 10 August 1973
7.Bahamas acceded 26 November 1986
8.Bahrain acceded 28 October 1988
9.Bangladesh acceded 11 March 1985
10.Barbados signed 16 February 1973 and ratified 16 February 1973
11.Belarus signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 26 March 1975
12.Belgium signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 15 March 1979
13.Belize succeded 20 October 1986
14.Benin signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 25 April 1975
15.Bhutan acceded 8 June 1978
16.Bolivia signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 30 October 1975
17.Bosnia and Herzegovina succeded 15 August 1994
18.Botswana signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 5 February 1992
19.Brazil signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 27 February 1973
20.Brunei Darussalam acceded 31 January 1991
21.Bulgaria signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 2 August 1972
22.Burkina Faso acceded 17 April 1991
Burundi signed 10 April 1972
23.Cambodia signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 9 March 1983
24.Canada signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 18 September 1972
25.Cape Verde acceded 20 October 1977
Central African Republic signed 10 April 1972
26.Chile signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 22 April 1980
27.China [see note 1] acceded 15 November 1984
28.Colombia signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 19 December 1983
29.Congo acceded 23 October 1978
30.Costa Rica signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 17 December 1973
Côte d'Ivoire signed 23 May 1972
31.Croatia succeded 28 April 1993
32.Cuba signed 12 April 1972 and ratified 21 April 1976
33.Cyprus signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 6 November 1973
34.Czech Republic succeded 5 April 1993
35.Democratic People's Republic of Korea acceded 13 March 1987
36.Democratic Republic of the Congo signed 10 April 1972 and
ratified 16 September 1975
37.Denmark signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 1 March 1973
38.Dominica acceded 8 November 1978 [see note 2]
39.Dominican Republic signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 23 February
1973
40.Ecuador signed 14 June 1972 and ratified 12 March 1975
Egypt signed 10 April 1972
41.El Salvador signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 31 December 1991
42.Equatorial Guinea acceded 16 January 1989
43.Estonia acceded 5 May 1993
44.Ethiopia signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 26 May 1975
45.Fiji signed 22 February 1973 and ratified 4 September 1973
46.Finland signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 4 February 1974
47.France acceded 27 September 1984
Gabon signed 10 April 1972
48.Gambia signed 2 June 1972 and ratified 21 November 1991
49.Georgia acceded 22 May 1996
50.Germany signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 7 April 1983
51.Ghana signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 6 June 1975
52.Greece signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 10 December 1975
53.Grenada acceded 22 October 1986
54.Guatemala signed 9 May 1972 and ratified 19 September 1973
55.Guinea acceded 29 July 1992
56.Guinea-Bissau acceded 20 August 1976
Guyana signed 3 January 1973
Haiti signed 10 April 1972
57.Honduras signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 14 March 1979
58.Hungary signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 27 December 1972
59.Iceland signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 15 February 1973
60.India signed 15 January 1973 and ratified 15 July 1974
61.Indonesia signed 20 June 1972 and ratified 19 February 1992
62.Iran (Islamic Republic of) signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 22
August 1973
63.Iraq signed 11 May 1972 and ratified 18 April 1991
64.Ireland signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 27 October 1972
65.Italy signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 30 May 1975
66.Jamaica acceded 13 August 1975
67.Japan signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 8 June 1982
68.Jordan signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 30 May 1975
69.Kenya acceded 7 January 1976
70.Kuwait signed 14 April 1972 and ratified 18 July 1972
71.Lao People's Democratic Republic signed 10 April 1972 and
ratified 20 March 1973
72.Latvia acceded 6 February 1997
73.Lebanon signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 26 March 1975
74.Lesotho signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 6 September 1977
Liberia signed 10 April 1972
75.Libyan Arab Jamahiriya acceded 19 January 1982
76.Liechtenstein acceded 31 May 1991
77.Lithuania acceded 10 February 1998
78.Luxembourg signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 23 March 1976
Madagascar signed 13 October 1972
Malawi signed 10 April 1972
79.Malaysia signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 6 September 1991
80.Maldives acceded 1 July 1993
Mali signed 10 April 1972
81.Malta signed 11 September 1972 and ratified 7 April 1975
82.Mauritius signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 7 August 1972
83.Mexico signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 8 April 1974
84.Monaco acceded 30 April 1999
85.Mongolia signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 5 September 1972
Morocco signed 2 May 1972
Myanmar signed 10 April 1972
Nepal signed 10 April 1972
86.Netherlands signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 22 June 1981
87.New Zealand signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 13 December 1972
88.Nicaragua signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 7 August 1975
89.Niger signed 21 April 1972 and ratified 23 June 1972
90.Nigeria signed 6 December 1972 and ratified 3 July 1973
91.Norway signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 1 August 1973
92.Oman acceded 31 March 1992
93.Pakistan signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 25 September 1974
94.Panama signed 2 May 1972 and ratified 20 March 1974
95.Papua New Guinea acceded 27 October 1980
96.Paraguay acceded 9 June 1976
97.Peru signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 11 June 1985
98.Philippines signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 21 May 1973
99.Poland signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 25 January 1973
100.Portugal signed 29 January 1972 and ratified 13 May 1973
101.Qatar signed 14 November 1972 and ratified 17 April 1975
102.Republic of Korea signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 25 January
1987
103.Romania signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 25 July 1979
104.Russian Federation signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 26 March
1975
105.Rwanda signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 20 May 1975
106.Saint Kitts and Nevis acceded 2 April 1991
107.Saint Lucia acceded 26 November 1986
108.Saint Vincent and the Grenadines acceded 13 May 1999
109.San Marino signed 12 September 1972 and ratified 11 March 1975
110.Sao Tome and Principe acceded 24 August 1979
111.Saudi Arabia signed 12 April 1972 and ratified 24 May 1972
112.Senegal signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 26 March 1975
113.Seychelles acceded 11 October 1979
114.Sierra Leone signed 7 November 1972 and ratified 29 June 1976
115.Singapore signed 19 June 1972 and ratified 2 December 1975
116.Slovak Republic succeded 17 March 1993
117.Slovenia succeded 7 April 1992
118.Solomon Islands acceded 17 June 1981
Somalia signed 3 July 72
119.South Africa signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 3 November 1975
120.Spain signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 20 June 1979
121.Sri Lanka signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 18 November 1986
122.Suriname acceded 9 April 1992
123.Swaziland acceded 18 June 1991
124.Sweden signed 27 February 1975 and ratified 5 February 1976
125.Switzerland signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 4 May 1976
Syrian Arab Republic signed 14 April 1972
126.Thailand signed 17 January 1973 and ratified 28 May 1975
127.The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia acceded 26 December
1996
128.Togo signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 10 November 1976
129.Tonga succeded 28 September 1976
130.Tunisia signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 18 May 1973
131.Turkey signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 4 November 1974
132.Turkmenistan acceded 11 January 1996
133.Uganda acceded 12 May 1992
134.Ukraine signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 26 March 1975
United Arab Emirates signed 28 September 1972
135.United Kingdom signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 26 March 1975
United Republic of Tanzania signed 16 August 1972
136.United States of America signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 26
March 1975
137.Uruguay acceded 6 April 1981
138.Uzbekistan acceded 12 January 1996
139.Vanuatu acceded 12 October 1990
140.Venezuela signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 18 October 1978
141.Viet Nam acceded 20 June 1980
142.Yemen signed 10 April 1972 and ratified 1 June 1979
143.Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of signed 10 April 1972 and ratified
25 October 1973
144.Zimbabwe acceded 5 November 1990
Notes:
[1.] With regard to the BWC, the People's Republic of China stated on
accession (15 November 1984): "The signature and ratification of the
Convention by the Taiwan authorities in
the name of China on 10 April 1972 and 9 February 1973 are illegal and
null and void".
[2.] Ambiguous. | |  | | Guest | | | | Guest | | | | Guest | | Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2002 5:52 am Post subject: Israel Dodges UN Pressure, How? |
| How does Israel get away with violating over 100+ UN protocols and Iraq only 14?
Shouldn't the US invade Israel instead? | | | | Guest | | Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2002 6:15 am Post subject: Boycott Israeli and Jewish Products |
| Israel's Hitlerian Plans for the Palestinians
by Benny Morris
Adolf Hitler has been made planet earth's number one hereditary monster (Saddam is but a distant second), essentially because the Nazi leader sought the forcible removal or "transfer" of
the Jewish people from Germany and German-occupied territory. That any similar fate has been engineered for the Palestinians by the Israelis is fiercely denied by Internet stalwarts like
Joseph Farah and blowhards of the air waves such as Rush H. Limbaugh. Prof. Benny Morris of Ben Gurion University offers the diligent student of inconvenient facts, a glimpse at the
authenticated criminal history of Zionism and the Israeli state. If Hitler must bear the Mark of Cain for all eternity for expelling Judaics from Germany, what sort of stigma and what kind of
war-crimes sanctions ought to be imposed on the Israelis for perpetrating and plotting the very same action against the 'sub-human' ("Amalek") Palestinians? Read more... | | | | *Mutt American | | Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 7:50 pm Post subject: Re: Israel Dodges UN Pressure, How? |
| | Guest wrote: | How does Israel get away with violating over 100+ UN protocols and Iraq only 14?
Shouldn't the US invade Israel instead? |
Learn the difference between UN Charter Article 6 resolutions and UN Charter Article 7 resolutions. Then you might understand. | | | | Guest-c651 | | Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 4:24 am Post subject: Israel: Germs, gas and A-bombs |
| Israel: Germs, gas and A-bombs
Fingers on all the buttons
By Neil Sammonds
The world's best-known and most efficient 'secret' manufacturer of
weapons of mass destruction is not Iraq, not even North Korea, but
Israel. Neil Sammonds looks at a nuclear, biological and chemical
warfare programme that even the Israeli Knesset cannot get access
to, let alone the United Nations.
In September 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at Israel's
Dimona nuclear site, revealed to the Sunday Times that the nuclear
military programme based there had produced 'over 200' nuclear
warheads.
Days later he was tricked into flying to Rome where he was
abducted by Mossad agents and secretly transported to Israel. In
November 1986, he was tried in camera and sentenced to 18 years'
imprisonment, 14 of which were spent in solitary confinement.
In 1999, in response to a petition from Yediot Ahronot newspaper,
the government released about 40 per cent of the trial documents.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists estimates that Israel has the
world's fifth largest stockpile of nuclear warheads (more than
Britain, which it believes has 185).
In February 2000, Knesset member Issam Mahoul said Israel had
'200 to 300' nuclear weapons; in August of that year, the Federation
of American Scientists said that Israel could have produced 'at least
100 nuclear weapons, but probably not significantly more than 200';
the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimates
200.
Other sources, including Jane's Intelligence Review, estimate
between 400 and 500 thermonuclear and nuclear weapons.
What Dimona is to Israel's nuclear programme, the Israeli Institute
for Biological Research (IIBR) at Nes Ziona is to its chemical and
biological warfare (CBW) programme. The high-security facility is
absent from aerial survey photographs and maps, on which it has
been replaced by orange groves.
Except for token visits to Dimona by a Norwegian team in 1961 and
a US team in 1969, there has been no international scrutiny. Even
the Knesset is denied access.
However, the 1993 report by the Office of Technology Assessment
for the US Congress states that Israel has 'undeclared offensive
chemical warfare capabilities' and is 'generally reported as having
an undeclared offensive biological warfare programme'.
Anthony Cordesman of the Centre for Strategic and International
Studies states that Israel has conducted extensive research into gas
warfare and is ready to produce biological weapons.
According to an exhaustive study by Karel Knip, a Dutch journalist,
the IIBR's work has included the synthesis of nerve gases such as
tabun, sarin and VX.
The October 1992 crash an of El Al cargo plane in Amsterdam that
caused at least 47 deaths and caused hundreds of immediate and
subsequent mysterious illnesses led to the disclosure in 1998 that
flight LY1862 was carrying chemicals including 50 gallons of
dimethyl methylphosphonate (DMMP) - enough to produce 594
pounds of sarin. The DMMP was supplied by Solkatronic Chemicals
Inc of Morrisville, Pennsylvania, and was destined for the IIBR.
Avner Cohen has catalogued reported uses of biological weapons
by Jewish forces during the 1948 war in Palestine. The Israeli
historian Uri Milstein alleged that 'in many conquered Arab villages,
the water supply was poisoned to prevent the inhabitants from
coming back.' Milstein states that one of the largest of such covert
operations caused the typhoid outbreak in Acre in May 1948.
The Palestinian Arab Higher Committee reported in July 1948 that
there was some evidence that Jewish forces were responsible for a
cholera outbreak in Egypt in November 1947 and in Syrian villages
near the Palestinian-Syrian border in February 1948.
In May 1948, the Egyptian ministry of defence stated that four
'zionists' had been captured while trying to contaminate artesian
wells in Gaza with 'a liquid which was discovered to contain germs
of dysentery and typhoid'.
In 1954, it was widely reported that defence minister Pinchas Lavon
had proposed using BW for special operations. Cohen says: 'Israel
has presumably employed biological or toxin weapons for special
operations.'
In 1955, Prime Minister Ben Gurion ordered the weaponisation and
stockpiling of chemical weapons in case of a war with Egypt.
Former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky claims that lethal tests have
been performed on Arab prisoners at the IIBR.
There are allegations that Israel has used CBW on numerous
occasions:
* Chemical defoliants used by the army against Palestinian lands,
including Ain el-Beida in 1968, Araqba in 1972 and Mejdel Beni
Fadil in 1978;
* Armed nuclear missiles in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars;
* Chemical weapons in the 1982 war on Lebanon, including
hydrogen cyanide, nerve gas and phosphorus shells;
* In the 1980s lethal gases against Palestinian civilians and
Palestinian, Lebanese and Israeli Jewish prisoners.
Discussing delivery systems, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists states
that Israel's F-16 squadrons based at Nevatim and Ramon are the
most likely carriers of nuclear warheads and that a small group of
pilots has been trained for nuclear strikes.
According to the Sunday Times, F-16s crews are also 'trained to fit
an active chemical or biological weapon within minutes of receiving
the command to attack'. Israel's F-4s, F-15s and Jaguars are also
nuclear-capable.
Israel's Jericho I (with a range of 660km) and Jericho II (1,500km)
missiles are nuclear-capable. The Shavit satellite launch vehicle is
convertible into an intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of
7,800km.
Israel also has three Dolphin-class submarines, the Dolphin, the
Leviathan and the Tekuma, which are reportedly modified to carry
nuclear-tipped cruise missiles.
It is widely believed to possess a tactical nuclear capability,
including small nuclear landmines, and strategic nuclear warheads
that it can fire from cannons.
The UN Security Council regularly calls on Israel 'urgently to place
its nuclear facilities under the safeguards of the International Atomic
Energy Agency.'
Israel has signed but not ratified the Chemical Weapons
Convention, but is one of only four countries in the world - with
Cuba, India and Pakistan - not to have signed the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty .
* This article first appeared in issue 1/03 of Index on Censorship:
Inside the Axis of Evil.
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