OPCW Director-General Meets CTBTO Executive Secretary and UN Under-Secretary for Disarmament Affairs

On 31 August 2006, Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, met in Vienna H.E. Ambassador Nobuaki Tanaka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs (UNDDA), and Ambassador Tibor Toth, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBO).

In their discussions, they focussed on issues of mutual interest, which are relevant to the OPCW, UNDDA and the CTBTO Preparatory Commission in their activities in the field of disarmament and the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

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