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OPCW Director-General Visits Viet Nam; Meets Foreign Minister and Minister of Industry
27 September 2006The Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, paid an official visit to The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam on 26 and 27 September 2006 and met the Deputy...
180 Countries Now Uphold the Chemical Weapons Ban
25 September 2006The Central African Republic will become the 180th State Party to the Chemical Weapons Convention on 20th October 2006. This will happen 30 days after it deposited its instrument of ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention...
OPCW Director General Attends Seventh U.N. High-Level Meeting
25 September 2006On 22 September 2006, the Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, attended the Seventh High-Level Meeting with Regional and Other Governmental...
The OPCW Hosts the UN Disarmament Fellows
25 September 2006The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons held a two-day seminar for the United Nations Disarmament Fellowship on 21 and 22 September 2006 at its Headquarters in The Hague as a part of continuing disarmament...
OPCW and IUPAC Develop Code of Ethical Principles of Chemistry
21 September 2006From 21 to 22 September 2006, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is meeting in Bologna, Italy, to...