{"id":88139,"date":"2019-11-23T17:52:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11870"},"modified":"2019-11-23T17:52:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T12:22:19","slug":"un-security-council-reaffirms-its-opposition-to-chemical-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-security-council-reaffirms-its-opposition-to-chemical-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Security Council reaffirms its opposition to chemical weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The United Nations Security Council has unanimously passed a declaration proposed by Britain expressing support for the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It aims to eliminate an entire category of weapons of mass destruction by prohibiting the development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, retention, transfer or use of chemical weapons.<\/li><li>&nbsp;It was signed in 1993 and came into force in 1997.<\/li><li>It is administered by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an intergovernmental organization based in the Hague, Netherlands.<\/li><li>It has 193 member states including India. North Korea, Egypt and South Sudan have not signed it, while Israel has signed but not ratified the pact.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UN Security Council (UNSC):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The United Nations Charter of 1945 established six main organs of the United Nations, including the Security Council. Other organs are UNGA, ECOSOC, Trusteeship Council, ICJ and UN secretariat.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Members:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Security Council consists of ten elected members and five permanent members who have veto power (P-5) &#8211; China, the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Russia.<\/li><li>The ten non-permanent members are elected on a regional basis by the General Assembly, (from five areas- five from Asia and Africa, one from Eastern Europe, two from Latin America, two from Western Europe) to serve two year terms. The body\u2019s presidency rotates among its members on a monthly basis.<\/li><li>The decisions are taken by the affirmative vote of nine members and a concurring vote of P-5 who have the power to veto (or say no) any resolution.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Role:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Maintaining international peace and security is one of the primary functions of the UNSC.<\/li><li>To investigate any dispute or situation which might lead to international friction.<\/li><li>To recommend methods of adjusting such disputes or the terms of settlement.<\/li><li>To formulate plans for the establishment of a system to regulate armaments<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Powers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is the only UN body with the authority to issue binding resolutions to member states.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It determines the existence of a threat to the peace or act of aggression and recommends what action should be taken.<\/li><li>It has the power to call on Members to apply economic sanctions and other measures not involving the use of force to prevent or stop aggression.<\/li><li>It can suspend economic and diplomatic relations between countries, impose blockades, and can authorize collective military action.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The United Nations Security Council has unanimously passed a declaration proposed by Britain expressing support for the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons. Facts: About Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons It aims to eliminate an entire category&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-security-council-reaffirms-its-opposition-to-chemical-weapons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UN Security Council reaffirms its opposition to chemical weapons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[5840,5199],"class_list":["post-88139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-convention-on-chemical-weapons","tag-unsc","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704689317},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}