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14 October 2013 - Today, on 14 October 2013, the Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force for the Syrian Arab Republic, making it the 190th State Party to the treaty. Syria deposited its instrument of accession with the…
11 October 2013 - The advance team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations has made good progress in verifying the information submitted by the Government of the Syrian Arab…
8 October 2013 - The OPCW Technical Secretariat in The Hague will deploy a second team of inspectors for the mission in Syria that will augment the advance team of OPCW experts, who have been in Syria since 1 October…
6 October 2013 - A group of OPCW Technical Secretariat experts who were part of the advanced team that has been in Damascus since 1 October has returned to The Hague. This group was tasked to engage with the Syrian…
6 October 2013 - Press release [bulletin] by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations. The process of destroying Syria's chemical weapons programme began today. Under the supervision of…
4 October 2013 - Press release [bulletin] from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations. At a meeting of the OPCW Executive Council held on 3 October 2013, Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü…
3 October 2013 - Press release [bulletin] from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations. The joint OPCW-UN team mandated to assist Syria with the elimination of its chemical weapons…
2 October 2013 - Press release [bulletin] from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations. The joint OPCW-UN team has completed its first working day in an operation that aims to rid Syria…
1 October 2013 - Press release [bulletin] from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations. An OPCW-UN advance team has arrived in Damascus just four days after the OPCW Executive Council…
27 September 2013 - Deeply outraged by the use of chemical weapons on 21 August in a Damascus suburb, as concluded by a United Nations investigation team, the Security Council this evening endorsed the expeditious destruction…
27 September 2013 - The OPCW Executive Council today adopted a historic decision [PDF - 28 KB] on the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons. In a special session, the 41-member body agreed on an accelerated programme for…
20 March 2014 - As of today 53.6% of the Syrian Arab Republic's chemical weapons material has been removed from or destroyed in the Syrian Arab Republic. This represents important progress. The Joint Mission welcomes the…