Question

Name the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons which is considered as the first global and non-discriminatory disarmament convention outlawing a whole range of weapons of mass destruction, including bio-weapons. India has recently affirmed that obligations on the 40th anniversary of this Convention becomes more pertinent than ever and called it a 'high priority' and asked for its 'full and effective implementation by all states partics,'

• A. The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare or the Geneva Protocol, 1925
• B. The Convention for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War, 1929
• C. The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction or Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), 1972
• D. The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (the Chemical Weapons Convention or CWC), 1997

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction or Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), 1972

Answer 2

The correct option is (C):The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction or Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), 1972.