OPCW Director-General Visits Macao Special Administrative Region (Macao Sar) and Guang Dong Province
13 June 2009Officials from the Ministry of Defence of China provided a presentation and an update on the activities (discovery and excavations) dealing with Japanese abandoned chemical weapons in Guang Dong Province.
OPCW Director-General Opens Regional Workshop in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
11 June 2009Pfirter: "The verification regime of the Convention requires States Parties to track the import and export of scheduled chemicals and report such data to the OPCW. Such a measure, when applied earnestly by all States Parties,...
Turkey Hosts Workshop on CWC Universality in the Mediterranean Basin and Middle East Region
22 April 2009Turkey hosted a workshop in Istanbul that was organised by the OPCW on the “Universality of the Chemical Weapons Convention in the Mediterranean Basin and the Middle East Region”, which was held in Istanbul on 16 and 17 April...
Update on universality and external relations
21 April 2009The next step in this positive engagement will be the Technical Secretariat’s goodwill missions, both to Israel and to Egypt. It will be late June for the visit to Israel, and hopefully we will soon have confirmation of the date...
H.E. Mr Siamand Banaa (Iraq)
20 April 2009H.E. Mr Siamand Banaa, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Iraq to the OPCW, presented his credentials to the Director-General on 20 April 2009. Ambassador Banaa is concurrently accredited as his country's Ambassador...