Opening Statement by the Director-General to the Executive Council at its Fifty-fifth Session
20 February 2009The year has started very positively for the OPCW, with two new States Parties having joined the Chemical Weapons Convention. This brings the number of States Parties to this very successful Convention to 186. We had all greeted...
Multiple Uses of Chemicals: 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 OPCW, the military threat from CWs has become...
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...
OPCW Director-General Addresses First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly
21 October 2008In an address on 15 October 2008 to the First Committee of the 63rd Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, the OPCW Director-General, Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, hailed the cooperation between the OPCW and the UN as...