100 years ago, the Geneva Protocol was signed.
The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in Warfare of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (often referred to as the Geneva Protocol) is an international agreement prohibiting the use of chemical or biological weapons in warfare.
The Convention was signed on 17 June 1925 in Geneva, Switzerland, and entered into force on 8 February 1928.
The Geneva Protocol prohibits the use of chemical or biological weapons, but does not oblige signatory states to manufacture, store or transport these weapons. These aspects related to the movement of chemical and bacteriological weapons became the subject of later international treaties, namely the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 and the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1992.
