Within the framework of its efforts to achieve international peace and security, the State of Qatar stressed its keenness on the effective participation in the international forums concerned with disarmament issues and to join relevant international conventions and treaties, most notably the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), and the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS).