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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 27. Mars 2007 / Time Line March 27, 2007
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Britain completes destruction of old Chemical Weapon
holdings
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Britain has successfully destroyed its holdings of old chemical
weapons, Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram announced at the
Imperial War Museum London on Tuesday 27 March 2007.
To demonstrate these weapons have been consigned to history, Mr
Ingram presented a commemorative chemical weapon shell from the
Second World War to the Museum for inclusion in its permanent
collection.
Behind him was the 1918 painting, Gassed, by John Singer Sargent,
which depicts the horror of the use of chemical weapons in Word War
I.
The recent attacks by terrorist insurgents in Iraq using improvised
chlorine explosive devices serve to demonstrate again the terrible
effects on humans if toxic chemicals are used to kill or maim and
underline the need to take these weapons out of circulation once
and for all.
The presentation highlights that Britain has met its obligation
under the Chemical Weapons Convention to destroy its holdings of
old, unusable weapons by April 2007. In total 3,812 old chemical
weapons have been safely destroyed at a cost of £10
Million.
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