“The United States is on track to complete the destruction of its stockpile of chemical weapons by this fall,” he said. RIA News . Biden added that this is an important disarmament step that meets the highest standards of transparency and public safety.
The American president assured that his country will continue to support the efforts of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to prevent the accumulation, production and use of chemical weapons in the world. The use of chemical weapons is unacceptable, and the world can be sure that the United States will not stop fighting impunity in this area, Biden said.
He also argues that the United States is leading by example.
Meanwhile, the United States is the only country party to the Chemical Weapons Convention that has not yet eliminated stockpiles of chemical warfare agents. Russia completely destroyed chemical weapons in 2017. The Russian Embassy in Washington has repeatedly called on the United States to destroy its own arsenal of chemical weapons.
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