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                   Angola Joins Global Chemical Weapons Body

   by Reuters

   Angola will join the chemical weapons non-proliferation body in The
   Hague, leaving only four countries that have not become members, the
   organization said on
   Monday.

   Angola will become the 192nd state to sign up to the 1997 Chemical
   Weapons Convention, which prohibits the development, use and
   stockpiling of all toxic agents for warfare.

   "I hope that the few remaining countries outside the convention -
   Egypt, Israel, North Korea and South Sudan -- will follow suit quickly
   to join the global consensus against these terrible weapons," said
   Director-General Ahmet Ãzümcü. Angola's membership will start on
   October 16.

   The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons won the Nobel
   Peace Prize in 2013 for its work in ridding Syria of its poison
   stockpile.
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