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OPCW Director-General Attends Opening Ceremony of the Shchuchye Chemical Weapons Destruction Facility in the Russian Federation
29 May 2009OPCW inspectors will maintain a 24-hour presence at the facility to ensure that all chemical weapons at the site are irreversibly destroyed
National Authorities of Eastern Europe Meet in Bulgaria
29 May 200936 participants from 23 States Parties attended
OPCW Director-General Visits Bulgaria
29 May 2009Opens a regional meeting jointly with the Bulgarian Minister of Economy and Energy, H.E. Mr Petar Dimitrov
OPCW Releases Scheduled Chemicals Database
29 May 2009Contains information on over 1,300 scheduled chemicals declared to the OPCW, as well as all scheduled chemicals that had been assigned CAS Registry Numbers, amounting to an additional 28,000 chemicals.
Director-General Addressed the 12th International Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference
27 May 2009He recalled that since the last CWD in 2008 (Interlaken, Switzerland), two additional possessor States had completed the destruction of their chemical weapons stockpiles.