UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the High-Level Meeting

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the High-Level Meeting to Commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the Chemical Weapons Convention (Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction), in New York, today:

I am pleased to have the opportunity to address this High-Level Meeting on the Tenth Anniversary of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Amid continuing concerns over threats to international peace and security posed by deadly indiscriminate weapons, I welcome this occasion to commemorate a truly significant accomplishment in the field of disarmament. Read more...

Address by H.E. Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

It is a unique and singular honour for me to welcome you to this High-Level Meeting convened especially to commemorate one of the most outstanding disarmament achievements of our times.

While the symbolic theme of our rally is the Tenth Anniversary of the entry into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), we have in reality come together to reaffirm and rededicate ourselves to peace and to progress.

This is a meeting which echoes our collective resolve for a more humane, a more cooperative and a peaceful world.

This is a gathering that unequivocally upholds the value of multilateralism whose fruits we reap every day in the work of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Read more...

Statement issued at the conlusion of the Meeting

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