Grobal Security Newswire
Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
Cambodian lawmakers today backed a law intended to deter proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the Xinhua News Agency reported (see GSN, March 20).
The law passed by the Cambodian National Assembly bans the production, recycling, transference and transportation of nuclear, biological, chemical and radioactive armaments.
Deputy Prime Minister Tea Banh said Phnom Penh would move to create an authority for the controlling chemical materials "as well as a laboratory for observing these substances in the country.
"We do not want to see these substances destroying our people's health and lives," he said (Xinhua News Agency/People's Daily Online, Oct. 14).
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