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Multiple Uses of Chemicals and Chemical Warfare: An Education Tool
28 November 2008Chemical processes determine who we are. Chemistry in the brain gives us our sense of being and helps to determine how we act. The oxygen we breathe is from chemical processes in plants, and many of the consumer products we buy...
The Threat of Chemical Weapons: Use by Non-State Actors
28 November 2008While the Cold War superpowers are slowly dismantling and disposing of their vast chemical weapons (CWs) arsenals, since 1991 through the outstanding and relentless efforts of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical...
The Verification Regime of the Chemical Weapons Convention: An Overview
28 November 2008Verification activities are concentrated within two operational units––the Verification Division and the Inspectorate Division. Both Divisions work hand in hand in planning, conducting, and reviewing all OPCW inspections. They...
Lebanon Joins the Chemical Weapons Convention
28 November 2008The Embassy of Lebanon to the Kingdom of the Netherlands informed the Technical Secretariat that, on 20 November 2008, the Government of Lebanon deposited its instrument of accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) with...
OPCW Associate Programme 2008: Training Course at United Phosphorus Limited Ankleshwar, India
27 November 2008Mr Stephan Lawrence Okuni, an analytical officer in the Government Analytical Laboratory of Uganda, and Ms Sanjana Devi Kisoona, a forensic scientist in the Forensic Science Laboratory of Mauritius, were asked to go to United...
Associate Programme 2008: The Bayer Experience
26 November 2008Bayer AG is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, agro-science and high technology materials. The products of Bayer and its services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of...
Associate Programme 2008: The DANISCO Experience
26 November 2008DANISCO was one of the European companies that trained participants of the OPCW Associate Programme 2008. The participants, who came from developing countries (Mongolia, South Africa, and Zambia), received training and...
Sixth Regional Meeting of National Authorities of States Parties in Africa Held in Kampala, Uganda
26 November 2008The Government of the Republic of Uganda and the OPCW co-hosted the Sixth Regional Meeting of African National Authorities in Kampala, Uganda, from 11 to 13 November 2008. The meeting was attended by 61 participants from 26...
Technical Secretariat to release software to assist Member States in creating their Article VI declarations: EDNA Electronic Declarations tool for National Authorities
25 November 2008The Technical Secretariat is releasing the first version of the Electronic Declarations tool for National Authorities (EDNA) on 27 November 2008. This software has been developed in-house by the Technical Secretariat and is...
OPCW Director-General Addresses the Peace and Security Council of the African Union and Meets the Chairperson of the AU Commission
21 November 2008The OPCW Director-General, Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, visited Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 19 November 2008 to address the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) on the status of implementation of the Chemical...