The Bilateral Destruction Agreement (BDA) calls for the destruction of about 35,000 metric tons of chemical weapons (CW) and their production facilities by each side. The BDA provides each side the right to monitor the destruction of chemical weapons and agents, inspect declared CW facilities, and perform trial challenge inspections at undeclared facilities. Under the America and Russia agreed to reduce and limit its chemical weapons so that, by no later than December 31, 2002, and thereafter, its aggregate quantity of chemical weapons does not exceed 5000 agent tons. In this Agreement, "tons" means metric tons. Each Party began its destruction of chemical weapons by no later than December 31, 1992. By no later than December 31, 1999, each Party shall have destroyed at least 50 percent of its aggregate quantity of chemical weapons.
The Bilateral Destruction Agreement [BDA] was signed in Washington on 01 June, 1990. The Agreement was signed for the USA by President George Bush and for the USSR by President Mikhail Gorbachev.
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