Samenvatting

My thesis deals with the Chemical Weapons Convention that has been adopted to prevent the proliferation of chemical weapons. It tries to describe the harmful effects of chemical warfare and the need of eliminating toxic chemical weapons.

There is a huge responsibility for the Member States to properly implement the Chemical Weapons Convention. Therefore, this paper will also try to guide the reader to understand the problems that some Member States face with implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Furthermore, it also tries to observe the factors due to which the Non Member States are not willing to join the Convention. Simultaneously, it tries to find the facts, which are responsible for the delay in the ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention by the Signatory states. This paper also strives to make the reader aware of the necessity to achieve the 'universality' of the Chemical Weapons Convention in all its aspects.

This paper tries to guide the reader to understand the importance of the Convention and the needs to implement it as well as the urgency for active participation of all the states of the world.

In the near future, it is crucial that all the countries join this Convention and actually make it work to reach its universality.