NY J03312

Requests Governor Andrew M. Cuomo proclaim April 29, 2020, as a Day of Remembrance in New York for victims of chemical warfare

Commemorates the centennial of chemical weapons' first large-scale use in April 1915 at Iper, Belgium during World War I

References the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993, which has been adopted by 190 states and eliminated 87% of the world's declared chemical weapons stockpiles

Calls on New Yorkers to rededicate themselves to preventing chemical weapons use and upholding the principles of the global ban against such weapons

Directs transmission of the resolution to the Governor's office