Preventing the Re‐Emergence of Chemical Weapons: Lessons for Non‐Proliferation - Keynote Speech at the Opening of the Asser Summer Programme
Deputy Director-General
5 September 2016
Remarks at Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research Annual Retreat, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Director-General
21 July 2016
Remarks to Formal Open Consultations of the Committee on the 2016 Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of Resolution 1540
Deputy Director-General
21 June 2016
Remarks to Seminar on Chemical Trade: Current Practices and Challenges, Rizhao City, Shandong Province, China
Deputy Director-General
16 June 2016
Keynote Speech 19th International Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference (CWD)
Director-General
26 May 2016
Remarks to Symposium on Women in Chemistry
Director-General
17 May 2016
Opening Remarks at the Chemical Safety and Security Management Workshop for North Africa, Middle East and Gulf Sub-Regions
Director-General
16 May 2016
The Speech of the Director-General to NATO Conference on WMD Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation
Director-General
9 May 2016
Closing Remarks to OPCW Day
Director-General
4 May 2016
Opening Remarks OPCW Day 2016: Chemical Safety and Security in a Technologically Evolving World
Director-General
2 May 2016
Remarks to Advisory Board on Education and Outreach
Director-General
28 April 2016
Statement at the Global Summit on Chemical Safety and Security (CHEMSS 2016)
Deputy Director-General
18 April 2016
Re-Arming Our Humanity: Contributions of Disarmament to Peace
Director-General
1 February 2016
Remarks at the Ceremony for Conferment of Légion d'Honneur (French)
Director-General
15 December 2015
Remarks by Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü at the 17th Annual Meeting of National Authorities of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention
Director-General
27 November 2015
Remarks at the Closure of Shchuchye Chemical Weapons Destruction Facility, Kurganskaya Oblast, Russian Federation
Deputy Director-General
20 November 2015
Remarks by Ambassador Hamid Ali Rao, OPCW Deputy Director-General, on the Remembrance Armistice Day
Deputy Director-General
11 November 2015
Briefing to Non-Residential Permanent Representations delivered by Ambassador Hamid Ali Rao, OPCW Deputy Director-General
Deputy Director-General
5 November 2015
Remarks by Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü at the Closing Ceremony of Maradykovsky Chemical Weapons Destruction Facility
Director-General
30 October 2015
Destruction and Beyond: New and Emerging Challenges for Chemical Disarmament – Speech by the Director-General at the 3rd International Symposium on Development of CBRN-Defence Capabilities
Director-General
20 October 2015
UNGA First Committee: Exchange with the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and other High-Level Officials “Increasing Capacities to Address Weapons of Mass Destruction”
Deputy Director-General
19 October 2015
Remarks by Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü at the Closing Ceremony of the Associate Programme
Director-General
2 October 2015
Introductory Remarks delivered by Deputy Director-General OPCW at the Briefing on outcome and next steps of the Workshop on Ethical Guidelines for the Practice of Chemistry under the Norms of the CWC
Deputy Director-General
18 September 2015
Opening remarks by OPCW Director-General, Ahmet Üzümcü, at the Workshop on Guidelines for the Practice of Chemistry under the Norms of the CWC
Director-General
17 September 2015
Chemical Disarmament at the Crossroads: Past Successes and Future Challenges - Lecture to Institute for Political Studies of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Director-General
11 September 2015
Partnerships for Disarmament: Lessons from Chemical Weapons Disarmament: Speech to Institute of Chemical Technology
Director-General
4 September 2015
Reinforcing the Norm Against Chemical Weapons: Speech to Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
Director-General
3 September 2015
Remarks by Director-General at University of Surrey
Director-General
16 July 2015
Keynote Speech at CTBT: Science and Technology 2015 Conference (SnT2015)
Director-General
22 June 2015
Wilton Park Event “100 years of Chemical Weapons and the Future of the OPCW” - Statement by the Director-General at the British Embassy, The Hague 15 June 2015
Director-General
15 June 2015
Opening statement to the Twenty-Second Session of the OPCW’s Scientific Advisory Board delivered by the Deputy Director-General
Deputy Director-General
8 June 2015
“Towards a World Free of Chemical Weapons: Disarmament for the Next Generation” Lecture by OPCW Director-Genera Ahmet Üzümcül at Tsinghua University, China
Director-General
7 June 2015
Statement by the Director-General at the 18th International Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference
Director-General
4 June 2015
Opening remarks by OPCW Director-General, Ahmet Üzümcü, at 13th Regional Meeting of National Authorities in Africa
Director-General
2 June 2015
Conférence du Directeur général de l'OIAC, Ahmet Üzümcü, à l’Université des sciences et de la technologie Houari-Boumediene (French)
Director-General
1 June 2015
Remarks by Director-General at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, 26 May 2015
Director-General
26 May 2015
Opening Remarks at the 13th Annual Meeting of National Authorities in Asia
Deputy Director-General
5 May 2015
Statement by the Director-General at the Remembrance Day for the Victims of Chemical Warfare
Director-General
29 April 2015
Chemical Weapons: From Ypres to Aleppo - Statement by OPCW Deputy Director-General at the Royal Higher Institute for Defence in Belgium
Deputy Director-General
22 April 2015
From Proliferation to Prohibition: Taking Stock at a Century of Chemical Weapons, Ieper 22 April 2015
Deputy Director-General
22 April 2015
OPCW Director-General Statement at Ieper Commemorative Gathering
Director-General
21 April 2015
Director-General's Justice Breyer Lecture at Brookings Institution
Director-General
9 April 2015
Commemoration of the 1988 Halabja Chemical Weapons Attack
Director-General
16 March 2015
A Disarmament for Peace: Nobel Peace Prize Forum
Director-General
7 March 2015
What Has Made the OPCW Successful - Director-General speech's at the Institute of International Relations, Prague 16 February 2015
Director-General
16 February 2015
Director-General's speech at Kyoto University 12 February 2015
Director-General
12 February 2015
Chemical Disarmament: The Syria Mission and Beyond Speech at Complutense University Madrid
Director-General
22 January 2015
Opening remarks by Ahmet Üzümcü, Director-General at Sixteenth Annual Meeting of National Authorities
Director-General
27 November 2014
Director-General's Opening Address at the Vincent Award
Director-General
21 November 2014
Deputy Director-General briefing for non-residential Permanent Representatives to the OPCW
Deputy Director-General
19 November 2014
Director-General's Address at the Said Business School, University of Oxford 17 November 2014
Director-General
17 November 2014
Keynote Speech at the Aula Magna, Havana University: Science in the Service of Humanity: The OPCW and Global Chemical Disarmament
Director-General
20 October 2014
Opening Remarks at the Regional Course on Medical Aspects of Assistance and Protection against Chemical Weapons for States Parties in the Latin America and Caribbean Region 20-23 October 2014, Havana, Republic of Cuba
Director-General
20 October 2014
Opening Address at the Education for Peace: New Pathways for Securing Chemical Disarmament conference
Director-General
21 September 2014
Director-General's speech at the opening event of Just Peace weekend
Director-General
19 September 2014
Director-General's Statement at the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Conference, Brussels 4 September 2014
Director-General
4 September 2014
Letter to the Pancretan Commission Against the Destruction of Syrian Chemical Weapons in the Enclosed Sea of the Mediterranean Sea
Director-General
29 July 2014
Opening Remarks by OPCW Deputy Director General at the European International Model United Nations (TEIMUN) 2014
Deputy Director-General
21 July 2014
Opening Remarks by OPCW Deputy Director-General at the 12th Regional Meeting of National Authorities in Asia
Deputy Director-General
16 July 2014
Statement of the Director-General, Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF), Copenhagen, 25 June 2014
Director-General
25 June 2014
Director-General's remarks at the Tenth Annual NATO Conference on WMD Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Director-General
23 June 2014
Director-General's Address at the ACUNS Annual Meeting, Istanbul 19 June 2014
Director-General
19 June 2014
Statement of the Director-General, Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, at the opening session of the World Congress on CBRNe Science and Consequence Management
Director-General
2 June 2014
Keynote at ECSITE 2014: Communicating Science for Peace: the Chemical Disarmament Experience
Director-General
24 May 2014
Lecture by OPCW Director-General Belarusian State University
Director-General
19 May 2014
Director-General Statement at the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association (ABIQUIM)
Director-General
15 May 2014
Remarks by Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü at the Unveiling of Halabja Monument
Director-General
29 April 2014
Victim Remembrance Day Statement by Director-General OPCW
Director-General
29 April 2014
Conference Remarks by the Director-General at the Foreign Ministry in Uruguay
Director-General
9 April 2014
Opening statement at the Regional Meeting on Education in the Responsible Application of Knowledge of Dual-Use Chemicals
Director-General
7 April 2014
Towards a World Free of Chemical Weapons: The Role and Work of the OPCW on the Path to Global Disarmament - Ahmet Üzümcü, Director-General OPCW
Director-General
7 April 2014
Statement by Ambassador Grace Asirwatham OPCW Deputy Director-General at The Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN)
Deputy Director-General
26 January 2014
Acceptance Speech by Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü at the University of Bologna
Director-General
17 January 2014
Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü Address to the Italian Parliament
Director-General
16 January 2014
Opening Remarks by Ambassador Grace Asirwatham, at the Kizner CWDF Opening Ceremony
Deputy Director-General
19 December 2013
The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture delivered by OPCW Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü
Director-General
10 December 2013
Opening Statement by the Director-General to the Conference of the States Parties at its Eighteenth Session
Director-General
2 December 2013
New Opportunities for Chemical Disarmament in the Middle East: Remarks at the Amman Security Colloquium
Deputy Director-General
13 November 2013
Director-General’s Statement at the 34th Meeting of the Executive Council
Director-General
5 November 2013
Deputy Director-General's Speech at the 60th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs
Deputy Director-General
2 November 2013
Thank You Letter From the Director-General Upon Winning the Nobel Peace Prize
Director-General
18 October 2013
Director-General's Statement at the Press Conference on 9 October 2013
Director-General
9 October 2013
Speech at the Fortieth Anniversary of VERIFIN
Director-General
7 October 2013
Director-General’s Statement on Executive Council Decision on Destruction of Syria Chemical Weapons
Director-General
27 September 2013
Statement by Ambassador Grace Asirwatham OPCW Deputy Director-General at the Fourteenth Regional Meeting of National Authorities of States Parties in Latin America and the Caribbean
Deputy Director-General
25 June 2013
Address to the 2013 Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference
Director-General
5 June 2013
Statement by the Director-General at the Remembrance Day for All Victims of Chemical Warfare
Director-General
29 April 2013
Director-General's Talking Points at the Opening of an Exhibition Marking the 15th Year of the OPCW
Director-General
15 April 2013
The Chemical Weapons Convention: Making Disarmament Happen
Director-General
19 March 2013
Knowledge Transfer, International Organisations and Global Education
Director-General
18 March 2013
Director-General's Address at the Seminar on the Chemical Weapons Convention and Chemical Safety and Security Management for Member States of the OPCW in the Asia Region
Director-General
11 December 2012
Deputy Director-General's Remarks at the Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction
Deputy Director-General
10 December 2012
Keynote Address to the Seventh Singapore International Symposium on Protection against Toxic Substances (SISPAT)
Director-General
4 December 2012
Speaking Notes: Cooperative Threat Reduction: Partnering for a More Secure World
Director-General
3 December 2012
Remarks by the Director-General on the occasion of the unveiling of the monument sponsored by Iran
Director-General
26 November 2012
Opening Statement by the Director-General to the Conference of the States Parties at its Seventeenth Session
Director-General
25 November 2012
Opening Remarks by the Director-General at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of National Authorities
Director-General
22 November 2012
Director General's Statement at the Sixty-Seventh Session of the United Nations General Assembly
Director-General
19 November 2012
Statement by Deputy Director-General Grace Asirwatham at the Commemoration of the 94th Anniversary of the End of the First World War
Deputy Director-General
11 November 2012
Director General Talking Points at Wilton Park: The Chemical Weapons Convention: Third Review Conference and Beyond
Director-General
17 October 2012