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OPCW Director-General Welcomes Continued EU Support for OPCW Activities
15 December 2009The EU Council Decision 2009 supports concrete projects that will endorse and strengthen the multilateral disarmament and non-proliferation measures of the CWC.
14th Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention Concludes
11 December 2009A 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.
OPCW Director-General Meets Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Addresses NATO Conference in Warsaw
10 December 2009The NATO conference attracted 170 senior officials representing more than 40 NATO and partner nations, including from the organisation’s Mediterranean Dialogue and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, the Gulf Cooperation Council and...
Workshop on Matters Related to Other Chemical Production Facilities (OCPFs)
08 December 2009On the second day of the workshop participants visited two OCPF sites – namely, Shell Nederland Chemie in Rotterdam and Chemtura in Amsterdam - as well as the OPCW laboratory in Rijswijk
11th Annual Meeting of OPCW National Authorities
04 December 2009OPCW Director-General: "The CWC is now a well recognised legal and moral norm whose violation under any circumstances will not be tolerated by the international community"
Russian Photo Exhibit: The Destruction of Chemical Weapons in the Russian Federation/ photos by ITAR-TASS
04 December 2009Photographers 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.
Meeting on Proposed NGO Coalition Against Chemical Weapons
03 December 2009The Hague, 2-3 December 2009
H.E. Mr Ahmet Üzümcü of Turkey Appointed as Next Director-General of the OPCW
02 December 2009Ambassador Üzümcü is a career diplomat with extensive multilateral experience in political-military affairs and in disarmament and proliferation issues.
UN Secretary-General Addresses the OPCW Conference
30 November 2009UN Secretary-General: "This year, the OPCW achieved a landmark by verifying the destruction of more than 50 per cent of the declared chemical weapons stockpiles."
Focus on: H.E. Mr Siamand Banaa, Permanent Representative of Iraq to the OPCW
30 November 2009"I personally believe that we have a very important role to serve -- we can give an example to the world of the absurdity, if not terror and futility, of the use of chemical weapons," said Banaa.