President Shavkat Mirzoyev signed the Law on the Accession of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (Geneva, June 17, 1925).
This protocol is a document confirming and supplementing the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, signed on April 10, 1972 in the cities of Moscow, London and Washington.
To date, 142 countries of the world have joined this Geneva Protocol, including Armenia, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan from the CIS countries.
