Situation
1. Is there an environmental risk for your country/region to be affected by waste originating from chemical munitions dumped at sea (WOCMDS)? If so, what are the environmental challenges and effects posed by WOCMDS?
There is no Chemical Munitions Dumped at Iran''s territorial sea area.
2. Does the scientific community in your country/region examine the environmental effects related to WOCMDS? If so, what are the findings of such scientific researches?
There is no such scientific association in my country.
Response to incidents
3. Does your country/region have the experience in responding to incidents related to WOCMDS?
Iran does not have any experience in responding to incidents related to WOCMDS.
4. Does your country/region have the capacity to respond to incidents related to WOCMDS?
Due to the fact that Iran has an 8-year war experience in defense of the country agains Iraqi invasion and several stances of chemical attacks by the former regime of Iraq against the Iranian civilians, we think that the capacity for the management and reaction exists in Iran with regard to the circumstances involving the dump of Chemical Munitions in the sea.
5. Has your government/organization developed an action plan or built capacities to respond to incidents related to WOCMDS? If not, does your government/organization intend to do so in the future?
The aforementioned capacity is potential, but there has been no practical measure done in this regard.
Raising awareness and other actions
6. Does your government/organization provide information on WOCMDS to civil society and industry? Does your government/organization raise awareness on WOCMDS and how?
There was no program so far for raising awareness on WOCMDS.
7. Are there any partnerships between government, industry and civil society in your country/region on raising awareness, reporting and monitoring of WOCMDS?
None
Cooperation
8. Does your government cooperate with other States, regional and/or international organizations to assess or increase awareness of WOCMDS?
None
9. What would be, in your view, possible modalities for international cooperation to assess and increase awareness of WOCMDS?
A proposal would be to increase awareness about the hazards of WOCMDS and to find common soltuitions as how to address such situations through bilateral or multilateral partnerships involving countries and the UN and also in the framework of Regional Centers of CWC.
Submitted by: Permanent Mission of Iran (I. R.)
