Rome Workshop on Chemical Weapons Ban in the Middle East Opens
26 October 2006The Director-General of the OPCW, Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, has appealed to the countries in the Middle East to banish the prospect of chemical weapons from the region. He spoke at the Third OPCW Workshop to promote the...
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...
The Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros Ratifies the Chemical Weapons Convention
31 August 2006The Union of the Comoros deposited its instrument of ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention with the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 18 August 2006. Thirty days after that date, on 17 September 2006, the...
OPCW Director-General Visits Jerusalem; Speaks at Hebrew University
04 April 2006Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, the Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), visited Jerusalem from 2 to 4 April 2006 at the invitation of the Leonard Davis Institute for International...
Liberia Ratifies the Chemical Weapons Convention
01 March 2006Green denotes a State Party to the Chemical Weapons Convention. Yellow —Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo and Guinea-Bissau— denotes a State which has signed but not yet ratified the Convention. Red...