HC Deb 01 February 1983 vol 36 cc71-3W
Mr. Warren

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which countries have signed the 1925 Geneva protocol banning the use of chemical weapons.

Mr. Hurd

We are consulting the French Government, who hold the instruments of ratification. The following list of those bound by the protocol has been compiled from our own records and we believe it to be accurate:

  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • Belgium
  • Bhutan
  • Botswana
  • Brazil
  • Bulgaria
  • Burma
  • Canada
  • Central African Republic
  • Chile
  • China
  • China (Taiwan)
  • Comoros
  • Cuba
  • Cyprus
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Denmark
  • Djibouti
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • Gambia
  • German Democratic Republic
  • Germany, Federal Republic of
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Grenada
  • Guyana
  • Holy See
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Ivory Coast
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kenya
  • Kuwait
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldive Islands
  • Mali
  • Malta
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • 73
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Morocco
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Norway
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Qatar
  • Romania
  • Rwanda
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sudan
  • Suriname
  • Swaziland
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand Togo
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Uganda
  • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Upper Volta
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Yemen Arab Republic (Sana)
  • Yugoslavia
  • Zambia

El Salvador and Nicaragua have signed the protocol but have not ratified it.