OPCW Director-General Opens Chemical Weapons Convention Workshop in Algeria
26 June 2007The Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, and H.E. Mr. Mourad Medelci, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Algeria inaugurated the Workshop on the...
OPCW Director-General Addresses Egyptian Council of Foreign Affairs
01 May 2007At the invitation of the Egyptian Council of Foreign Affairs, the Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, addressed on Tuesday, 17 April 2007, a special...
OPCW Director-General Meets Israeli Delegation; Universality of the Chemical Weapons Convention Discussed
01 May 2007On 18 April 2007, an official delegation of the State of Israel led by the Deputy Director-General for Strategic Affairs of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Ms Miriam Ziv, visited the headquarters of the Organisation...
OPCW Director-General Condemns Renewed Chemical Attacks in Iraq
19 March 2007With evidence of further chlorine attacks that have claimed more lives and have caused the largest number of casualties since the series of chlorine bombings began in Iraq, the Director-General of the Technical Secretariat of the...
Barbados Joins the Chemical Weapons Convention
15 March 2007Barbados deposited its instrument of accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention with the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 7 March 2007. The Convention will enter into force for Barbados as of 6 April 2007, at which...