WHITE HALL — A multinational team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, based in The Hague, Netherlands, has been inspecting the chemical-weapons storage area at the Pine Bluff Arsenal to ensure the facility’s compliance with the terms of an international treaty.

The team, which arrived Wednesday, will be on-site until early next week, arsenal spokesman Carole Newton said. The inspection is a requirement of the Chemical Weapons Convention, as approved in April 1997 by 87 participating nations, including the United States. It is the 35th inspection, or visit, under terms of the charter, according to a news release from the arsenal.

“The inspectors want to verify that nobody has moved any of the munitions and that the count is still what we said it was,” Newton said.

The convention, now ratified by 175 nations, prohibits the development, production, stockpiling or use of chemical weapons. It also requires the weapons’ destruction, which began at the Pine Bluff Arsenal in March.

The inspection team was expected to examine stockpiles of rockets and land mines that contain nerve agents, as well as containers of blister agents.

This story was published Saturday, November 19, 2005.