Bergenheim
Establishing Nation
((OOC: To save time and because I don't think role-playing out a Third conference to settle on all these terms would be very interesting or productive, I present the results of the Happened-off-screen Third Midweis Conference, in which a bunch of Gallo-Germanic nations agreed to present to the world a treaty banning the use of WMD. The text of this agreement is mostly copied from the 1925 Geneva Protocol.))
The Undersigned Plenipotentiaries, in the name of their respective Governments:
Whereas the use in war of biological, chemical, poisonous, neurotoxic, substances, and of all analogous gases, liquids, materials or devices, has been justly condemned by the general opinion of the civilised world; and
Whereas the prohibition of such use has been declared in previous Treaties to which the majority of Powers of the World are Parties; and
To the end that this prohibition shall be universally accepted as a part of International Law, binding alike the conscience and the practice of nations;
Declare:
That the High Contracting Parties, so far as they are not already Parties to Treaties prohibiting such use, accept this prohibition, agree to extend this prohibition to the use of bacteriological and chemical methods of warfare and agree to be bound as between themselves according to the terms of this declaration.
The High Contracting Parties will exert every effort to induce other States to accede to the present Treaty. Such accession will be notified to the Government of the Bergenheim Republic, and by the latter to all signatory and acceding Powers, and will take effect on the date of the notification by the Government of the Bergenheim Republic.
The present Treaty, of which the Germanic and English texts are both authentic, shall be ratified as soon as possible. It shall bear todays date.
The ratification of the present Protocol shall be addressed to the Government of the Bergenheim Republic, which will at once notify the deposit of such ratification to each of the signatory and acceding Powers.
The instruments of ratification of and accession to the present Protocol will remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the Bergenheim Republic.
The present Protocol will come into force for each signatory Power as from the date of deposit of its ratification, and, from that moment, each Power will be bound as regards other powers which have already deposited their ratification.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Protocol.
DONE at Midweis in a single copy, this Twenty-First September, Two Thousand and Eighteen.
INTERNATIONAL TREATY OF MIDWEIS ON THE PROHIBITION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (2018)
The Undersigned Plenipotentiaries, in the name of their respective Governments:
Whereas the use in war of biological, chemical, poisonous, neurotoxic, substances, and of all analogous gases, liquids, materials or devices, has been justly condemned by the general opinion of the civilised world; and
Whereas the prohibition of such use has been declared in previous Treaties to which the majority of Powers of the World are Parties; and
To the end that this prohibition shall be universally accepted as a part of International Law, binding alike the conscience and the practice of nations;
Declare:
That the High Contracting Parties, so far as they are not already Parties to Treaties prohibiting such use, accept this prohibition, agree to extend this prohibition to the use of bacteriological and chemical methods of warfare and agree to be bound as between themselves according to the terms of this declaration.
The High Contracting Parties will exert every effort to induce other States to accede to the present Treaty. Such accession will be notified to the Government of the Bergenheim Republic, and by the latter to all signatory and acceding Powers, and will take effect on the date of the notification by the Government of the Bergenheim Republic.
The present Treaty, of which the Germanic and English texts are both authentic, shall be ratified as soon as possible. It shall bear todays date.
The ratification of the present Protocol shall be addressed to the Government of the Bergenheim Republic, which will at once notify the deposit of such ratification to each of the signatory and acceding Powers.
The instruments of ratification of and accession to the present Protocol will remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the Bergenheim Republic.
The present Protocol will come into force for each signatory Power as from the date of deposit of its ratification, and, from that moment, each Power will be bound as regards other powers which have already deposited their ratification.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Protocol.
DONE at Midweis in a single copy, this Twenty-First September, Two Thousand and Eighteen.