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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 5. September 2005 / Timeline September 5, 2005
Version 3.54. September 2005, 6. September 2005
09/05/2005
Hurricane Katrina
Stennis Space Center remains closed as recovery efforts continue in
the wake of Hurricane Katrina. NASA has designated a telephone
number (256/544-4700) for family members seeking information about
people who may have sought shelter from Hurricane Katrina at NASA's
Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and Michoud Assembly Facility
near New Orleans. Support personnel at that number will also assist
people trying to locate employees who work at either facility. NASA
established a toll-free number (888/362-4323) for recorded updates
about general conditions at Stennis and Michoud. Rocket Propulsion
Testing
The Propulsion Test Directorate at Stennis Space Center oversees
one-of-a-kind national test facilities. SSC is America's largest
rocket test complex and state-of-the-art facilities include the A,
B and E Test Complexes, designed for rocket propulsion testing that
ranges from component to engine to stage level.
Applied Sciences Directorate The Applied Sciences Directorate at
Stennis Space Center plays a key role in NASA's Science Mission
Directorate. Applied science applications use NASA's unique science
research results, data, remote sensing and other technical
capabilities to help provide information for better
decision-making.
US Naval Research Laboratory - Stennis Space Center, MS
Facilities include research, computation, laboratory,
administrative, and warehouse. Features a number of large antennas
to receive available oceanographic ...
09/05/2005
Honduras ratifies the Chemical Weapons Convention
The Republic of Honduras deposited its instrument of ratification
of the Chemical Weapons Convention with the Secretary-General of
the United Nations on 29 August 2005 . Honduras will become a State
Party to the Chemical Weapons Convention on 28 September 2005,
thirty days after the deposit of its instrument of ratification,
bringing the total number of OPCW Member States to 173.
Honduras' ratification of the CWC has confirmed the universal
validity of this multilateral instrument, which bans the
development, production, stockpiling, use or transfer of chemical
weapons, and enhances collective security through the verified
elimination of an entire category of weapons of mass
destruction.
By implementing the CWC effectively and in full, Honduras will
contribute both to strengthening the global chemical weapons ban,
as well as the international community's effort to prevent the
spread of weapons of mass destruction. As a Member State, it will
also be entitled to benefit from the OPCW's international
cooperation and assistance programmes.
Following ratification by Honduras, all of the countries Central,
North and South America are now also covered by the Convention's
arms control and disarmament regime, together with the vast
majority of States in the Caribbean basin. These developments are
fully in conformity with the resolution adopted by the General
Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in June 2004
on the establishment of the Americas as a biological- and
chemical-weapons-free region. Already, 31 of the 35 members of the
OAS have joined the Convention.
The Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force on 29 April
1997. The Convention's implementing agency, the OPCW, is mandated
to verify the elimination of chemical weapons and to prevent their
re-emergence and their proliferation, while providing international
assistance and protection in the event of the use, or threat of
use, of chemical weapons, as well as to promote international
cooperation in the peaceful uses of chemistry. To achieve an
effective, global ban on chemical weapons, the OPCW strives to
achieve universal adherence to the Convention. Currently, 12 States
have signed, but have not yet ratified this treaty. A further 9
States have neither signed, nor ratified the Convention.
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