Principal Staff Officer (PSO) of the Armed Forces Division and Chairman of the Bangladesh National Authority for Chemical Weapons Convention (BNACWC) Major General Mustafa Reza Noor said this while he was addressing the closing ceremony of a training course on Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) at Dhaka Cantonment yesterday.

The training course began on May 31. It was conducted by a three-member team of experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) from the Hague, the Netherlands.

Some 24 representatives from different ministries and government agencies, including Bangladesh Armed Forces, who are involved in the implementation of the convention, took part in the course, says an ISPR release.

"We, in the framework of parliamentary democracy, are doing our utmost to see effective implementation of the CWC", Gen. Noor said.

He said, "We believe in a world free from terrorism, a world free from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as well as a world free from all sort of weapons of mass destruction".

Gen. Noor thanked the OPCW for sending their experts to conduct the training course. He also distributed certificates among the participants of the training course.

The Chemical Weapons Convention is an arms control agreement, which outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. It was signed in 1993 and entered into force on April 29, 1997.

The objective of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is to rid the world of chemical weapons by prohibiting their development, production, acquisition, stockpiling, retention, transfer and use.

Bangladesh signed the Convention in 1993 and ratified the agreement in 1997.