News related to the Conference of the States Parties of the OPCW

14th Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention Concludes

A total of 122 of the 188 States Parties to the CWC attended, together with 2 signatory States, 8 IGOs, and 30 NGOs and chemical industry associations. 11 December 2009Full story

Russian Photo Exhibit: The Destruction of Chemical Weapons in the Russian Federation/ photos by ITAR-TASS

Photographers from the ITAR-TASS News Agency visited Gorny, Kambarka, Kizner, Leonidovka, Maradykovsky, Pochep and Shchuchye to chronicle the demilitarization work underway at those seven sites for the exhibit.04 December 2009Full story

Meeting on Proposed NGO Coalition Against Chemical Weapons

The Hague, 2-3 December 200903 December 2009Full story

H.E. Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations Office in Geneva

H.E. Mr Ahmet Üzümcü of Turkey Appointed as Next Director-General of the OPCW

Ambassador Üzümcü is a career diplomat with extensive multilateral experience in political-military affairs and in disarmament and proliferation issues. 02 December 2009Full story