一百年前,第一次世界大战的主要交战方发动了化学战;一个世纪后,叙利亚境内使用化学战剂来对付军队和平民的行动还在持续中。为放弃化学武器,国际社会作出了巨大努力,致使《禁止化学武器公约》(CWC)于1997年4月生效,并得到192个国家的批准和实施。该公约禁止生产、储存和使用化学武器,迄今为止90%以上申报的库存化学武器已被销毁。据报道,在联合国禁止化学武器组织(OPCW)宣布与法国威立雅(Veolia)环境集团美国子公司签约 Hundreds of years ago, the main warring parties of World War I launched a chemical warfare. A century later, the use of chemical warfare agents in Syria against the army and civilians continued. In order to abandon chemical weapons, great efforts have been made by the international community to bring the CWC into effect in April 1997 and get the ratification and implementation of 192 countries. The Convention prohibits the production, storage and use of chemical weapons, and so far over 90% of declared chemical weapons in stock have been destroyed. It is reported that the United Nations Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced that it signed a contract with the U.S. subsidiary of Veolia Environmental Group