Editing Chemical Weapons Convention (section)

===Treaty deadlines===
The treaty set up several steps with deadlines toward complete destruction of chemical weapons, with a procedure for requesting deadline extensions. No country reached total elimination by the original treaty date although several have finished under allowed extensions.<ref>
"Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia is destroying its last supplies of chemical weapons": [http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/859500/Russia-destroys-last-chemical-weapons-USA-next SOPHIE WILLAIMS, ''Russia destroys ALL chemical weapons and calls on AMERICA to do the same'', Express], 27-9-2017.</ref>

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|+ Reduction Phases
! '''Phase''' || '''% Reduction''' || '''Deadline''' || '''Notes'''
|-
| I ||1% ||April 2000 ||&nbsp;
|-
| II || 20% || April 2002 ||Complete destruction of empty munitions, precursor chemicals,<br /> filling equipment and weapons systems
|-
|III ||45% ||April 2004 ||&nbsp;
|-
|IV || 100% || April 2007 ||No extensions permitted past April 2012
|}