OPCW Director-General Visits Washington DC for High-Level Meetings and Public Presentations
18 June 2009The OPCW Director-General, Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, visited Washington DC on 16 and 17 June 2009 for a series of high-level meetings with US government officials and Congressional offices and to deliver public addresses at two...
OPCW Delegation Visits Chemical Weapons Destruction Facility in Umatilla
05 June 2009To date, the facility has completed the destruction of all GB and VX agents, representing 37% of the original stockpile at that site
OPCW Delegation Visits U.S. Chemical Weapons Destruction Facilities
04 June 2009The facility located at Pueblo will destroy 2,371 metric tonnes of mustard agent by neutralization, followed by bio-treatment of the resulting hydrolysate
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
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.