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Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

The Federated States of Micronesia adopts the implementing legislation

30 May 2014
Participants at Third Advanced Regional Assistance and Protection Course on Chemical Emergency Response for GRULAC States Parties, which was held in Argentina.

Third Advanced Regional Assistance and Protection Course on Chemical Emergency Response for GRULAC States Parties held in Argentina.

28 May 2014
Participants at an Advanced Course on Assistance and Protection, which was held at the Portuguese Air Force Survival Training Centre from 12 to 16 May 2014.

Advanced Course on Assistance and Protection Held in Portugal

23 May 2014
OPCW Director-General Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü (right) and the President of the Republic of Belarus, H.E. Mr Aleksandr Lukashenko. Photo: Website of the President of Belarus

Director-General Visits Belarus and Meets President, Ministers

20 May 2014
Participants at a Course on Sampling and Analysis in Highly Contaminated Environments, which was held in Czestochowa, Poland in May 2014.

Course on Sampling and Analysis in Highly Contaminated Environments Held in Poland

20 May 2014
OPCW Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü (left), in a working meeting with the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado. Photo: Marcos Vinicius Bessa/AIG-MRE via Flickr

Director-General Visits Brazil

16 May 2014
Participants at the 10th Regional Assistance-and-Protection Course for Asian States Parties

10th Regional Assistance-and-Protection Course for Asian States Parties Held in Seoul

8 May 2014
Participants at the 2014 Meeting of Legal Advisers of Specialized, Related and other Organisations (UN System)

OPCW Hosts 2014 Meeting of Legal Advisers of Specialized, Related and other Organisations (UN System)

7 May 2014

China Hosts Seminar on the CWC and Chemical Safety and Security Management for OPCW Member States in ASEAN and SAARC

6 May 2014
A monument in memory of the victims of the gas attack on the Iraqi town of Halabja in March 1988 was unveiled in the OPCW compound. The monument was donated by the Government of Iraq and is a replica of an original version that stands in Halabja.

OPCW Observes Annual Remembrance Day for Victims of Chemical Warfare

29 April 2014

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