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Conference Outcomes Bolster OPCW’s Agenda for the Future
The 16th Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention delivered a number of decisions that will position the OPCW to meet new challenges in the years ahead as the destruction of declared chemical weapons stockpiles nears completion. Read more
Report of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Working Group of the CTITF now available
The report, entitled Interagency Coordination in the Event of a Terrorist Attack Using Chemical or Biological Weapons or Materials, is now available for download.

OPCW Delegation Briefs Permanent Representations in Brussels
As part of the Technical Secretariat's annual programme, a briefing session was conducted on 25 January 2012 for OPCW Permanent Representations that are based in Brussels, Belgium. The...26 January 2012Full story

Deputy Director-General Visits the United Kingdom
The Deputy Director-General, Mrs Grace Asirwatham, visited the UK on 19 and 20 January 2011 where she had meetings with senior UK Government officials, with members of the Chemical Weapons Convention...23 January 2012Full story
OPCW Inspectors Verify Newly Declared Chemical Weapons Materials in Libya
A team of OPCW inspectors visited Libya from 17 to 19 January 2012 to verify previously undisclosed chemical weapons that were discovered after the fall of the former regime. The new government in...20 January 2012Full story

Director-General Visits Pakistan and Meets Foreign Minister
During his first official visit to Pakistan on 9 and 10 January 2012, Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü met with Ms. Hina Rabbani Khar, the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, and other senior...10 January 2012Full story
List of links to recent journal articles on chemical disarmament, non-proliferation and other related issues.
Why Codes of Conduct Matter Chemistry International
Graham S. Pearson, Edwin D. Becker and Leiv K. Sydnes, 16 January 2012
BWC Meeting Makes Incremental Changes Arms Control Today
Daniel Horner and Oliver Meier, 16 January 2012
Accord Reached on CWC’s 2012 Deadline Arms Control Today
Daniel Horner, 13 January 2012
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Call for Nominations for a Basic Course for Personnel of National Authorities Involved in the National Implementation of the CWC
The Technical Secretariat (hereinafter “the Secretariat”) is pleased to announce that a four-day basic course for the personnel of National Authorities will be held at the Headquarters of the OPCW in The Hague, the Netherlands, from 6 to 9 March 2012...
Call for Nominations for the Swiss Exercise Course 2
On behalf of the Government of Switzerland and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the Director-General wishes to invite States Parties to nominate participants for the second Swiss exercise course on protection against c...
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188 nations, 98% of the global population, have joined the OPCW.
50,619, or 71.10%, of the world's declared stockpile of 71,195 metric tonnes of chemical agent have been destroyed.
4,680 inspections have taken place at 195 chemical weapon-related and 1,103 industrial sites on the territory of 81 States Parties since April 1997. Worldwide, 4,913 industrial facilities are liable to inspection.








