OPCW Director-General Addresses the United Nations

On 21 October 2004, the Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter addressed the 59th Session of the United Nations General Assembly and delivered the...21 October 2004Full story

OPCW Director-General, Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, Addresses the First Committee of the UN General Assembly

The Director–General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, addressed the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly on 7 October 2004.11 October 2004Full story

OPCW Director-General, Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, Visits the United Nations and Meets UN Secretary General

On the occasion of his visit to the United Nations (UN) on 7 October 2004, OPCW Director- General, Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, met with H.E. Mr Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General; H.E. Mr Mihnea Ioan Motoc, Permanent...11 October 2004Full story

The Secretariat of the Basel Convention and the OPCW Technical Secretariat Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Working Level Cooperation

On 26 May 2004, the Director-General of the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Mr Rogelio Pfirter, and the Executive Secretary of the Basel Convention, Mrs Sachiko...26 May 2004Full story

African Union Calls for Chemical Weapons-Free Zone in Africa

The Workshop on the Universality and the Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), conducted jointly by the Government of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical...29 April 2004Full story

African Union and OPCW Cooperate in Eliminating Chemical Weapons

The Government of Ethiopia and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are jointly conducting a workshop on the universality and the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention in Addis Ababa,...21 April 2004Full story

58th Session of the UN General Assembly, First Committee: Statement by OPCW Director-General

Statement by Mr Rogelio Pfirter, OPCW Director-General to the Fifty-Eighth Session of the General Assembly, Disarmament and International Security Committee (First Committee), General Debate, United Nations, New York, 7...07 October 2003Full story