On 26 June 2010 Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü of Turkey received an honorary doctorate from the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations for lifetime achievements in arms control and disarmament.
According to the Geneva School of Diplomacy, Ambassador Üzümcü received this degree —Doctor of International Relations, honoris causa— for his “lifetime achievements in the field of arms control, his diplomatic pre-eminence in the UN Conference on Disarmament over many years, his contribution to arms control as his country’s representative to NATO and for the unusually broad and comprehensive support, from the international community, for his recent elevation to Head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons”.
Ambassador Üzümcü received his degree along with Ambassador Dáithí O’Ceallaigh of Ireland —who chaired the conference that produced the Convention on Cluster Munitions— and Ambassador Yuri Nazarkine of Russia, who was Russian Chief Negotiator of the START Treaty aimed at lowering the levels of deployed nuclear weapons of the major nuclear powers.