Greece has signed nearly all the multilateral arms control agreements concluded in the 1980s and the 1990s, as well as many older pacts still in force. Among those agreements are the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the Antarctic Treaty, the Partial Test Ban Treaty, the Outer Space Treaty, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1968, the Seabed Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, the Enmod Convention, the "Inhumane Weapons" Convention, the CFE Treaty, and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Greece's very limited nuclear activities have been for peaceful purposes. The only nuclear installations in the country are a fivemegawatt pool-type research reactor at the Demokritos National Research Center, which uses 20 percent enriched uranium, and a subcritical installation at the National Polytechnic University of Athens. The Demokritos reactor is mainly used for the training of scientists and for the production of radioisotopes for medical uses. Both facilities operate under the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Administration and the European Atomic Energy Program. Although Greece exports almost no nuclear materials, it has pledged to apply international safeguards on any shipments of nuclear technology through its territory. In preparation for the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference, Greece has expressed strong support for indefinite and unconditional extension of the treaty.

Greece is also a member of the Australia Group for the Control of Chemical Exports and of the Missile Technology Control Regime. It has also signed the Chemical Weapons Convention and is preparing to implement the treaty's provisions fully. Greece was a member of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom), an international organization aimed at controlling international movement of strategically sensitive items. As an upgraded export control organization was being established to replace CoCom in 1994, Greece prepared for full participation in the new regime. Greece's official view, however, is that the most effective arms control measures are political solutions to conflicts causing security threats, rather than exclusive reliance on international policing.

Data as of December 1994

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