He has been a vigorous advocate of developing and deploying militarily and cost-effective means to destroy such weapons in flight.

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Signatories will have to destroy these weapons, not store or sell them.

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Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer now proposes a new "international regime" to control and destroy weapons of mass destruction, as an alternative to the US strategy of threatening military force.

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