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Watchdog Agency: Treaty to Eliminate Chemical Weapons “Is Succeeding”
08 April 2008THE HAGUE - The agency responsible for implementing the international Chemical Weapons Convention has reported that steady progress is being made to eliminate global stockpiles of chemical weapons and the means to produce them,...

Message from the UN Secretary-General to the Second Review Conference
07 April 2008Delivered by Mr Tim Caughley, Deputy Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament, Director of the Geneva Branch of the Office for Disarmament Affairs of the United Nations.

Opening Statement by the Director-General to the Second Review Conference
07 April 2008Extract from the official document RC-2/DG.2, dated 7 April 2008, available at www.opcw.org/rc2

CWC Second Review Conference to be held in The Hague, 7-18 April 2008
21 February 2008Article VIII, paragraph 22, of the Convention provides that the Second Review Conference shall be convened not later than one year after the expiry of the tenth year following the entry into force of the Convention (which took...

