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Practice Relating to Rule 74. Chemical Weapons
VI. Other National Practice
In 1977, during a debate in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, Burma explained that the elimination of chemical weapons was a goal for the Burma Socialist Party. 
Burma, Statement before the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, UN Doc. A/C.1/ 32/PV.10, 28 September 1977, p. 2.
At the 1988 Session of the Conference on Disarmament, Burma declared that it “does not possess, develop, produce, stockpile or use chemical weapons. Nor will it do so in the future.” 
Burma, Statement before the Conference on Disarmament, UN Doc. CD/PV.452, 29 March 1988, p. 9.