text: CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENTCD/650 5 August 1985 ENGLISH Original : FRENCH FRANCE CHEMICAL WEAPONS ELIMINATION OF STOCKS OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IRREVERSIBLE NEUTRALIZATION OF MEANS OF PRODUCTION GE.85-65489 CD/630 page ii CONTENTS PAGE I. SECURITY BALANCE 2 II. ELIMINATION OF STOCKS OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS 4 1. Initial declaration 4 2. Composition of stocks 5. Destruction procedures 5 4. Destruction time-table 7 ' 5. Verification ' III. LIQUIDATION OF PRODUCTION CAPACITY 9 1. Definitions 9 2. Irreversible neutralization procedures 11 3. Time-table 12 4. Verification 15 IV. DEADLINE SCHEDULES 14 CD/630 page 1 CHEMICAL WEAPONS ELIMINATION OF STOCKS OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IRREVERSIBLE NEUTRALIZATION OF MEANS OF PRODUCTION Under a convention prohibiting chemical weapons, the States parties will undertake to do away with their chemical warfare capability. Two important steps are essential for the implementation of such an undertaking: The destruction or re-allocation to peaceful uses of the means of production of chemical weapons; The elimination of existing stocks of chemical weapons, either by destruction or by re-allocation to peaceful uses. All countries are now in agreement in estimating that it would take ten years to complete such a programme of destruction - re-allocation. This programme of elimination can only be brought to a successful conclusion by respecting the balance of security as between all countries. In no case must this operation enable one country or one group of countries to magnify, even temporarily, a qualitative or quantitative superiority at the expense of other countries . What is more, a time-table must be approved by agreement among the States possessing stocks, in accord with the other signatory countries, and this time­ table must be a document whose legal status vis-a-vis the convention must be defined, before the convention enters into force. The time-table will take account of existing differences between countries: 
analysis: This text appears to be discussing a conference on disarmament and the elimination of chemical weapons, focusing on the destruction of stocks and means of production. The language used is formal and diplomatic, suggesting a focus on international relations and security rather than economic or social development.