Press Releases

  • Nobel Peace Prize 2013 received by OPCW Director-General
    20 Mar 2014 - 10 December 2013 - Ahmet Üzümcü commends practical, verifiable results of chemical disarmament. - Says that partnerships with science, industry and civil society are key. - Urges states outside the Chemical Weapons Convention to join. - Announces that Prize money will be used...
  • OPCW deploys second team of inspectors to expand verification and destruction activities in Syria
    20 Mar 2014 - 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 conducting verification and destruction activities. In his...
  • OPCW team completes first week of work in Syria
    20 Mar 2014 - 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 authorities in accordance with Operative Paragraph One of the...
  • Syria chemical weapons destruction begins
    20 Mar 2014 - 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 experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of...
  • OPCW adopts plan for destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons programme in the first half of 2014
    20 Mar 2014 - 15 November 2013 - Most critical chemicals to leave Syria by end of 2013 - Over 60 percent of unfilled warheads and bombs destroyed The OPCW Executive Council (EC) approved today a detailed plan of destruction to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons stockpile. In the plan, Syrian...
  • Syria chemical weapons team reports encouraging progress
    20 Mar 2014 - 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 programme has made encouraging initial progress,...
  • Chemical weapons team gets down to work in Syria
    20 Mar 2014 - 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 of its chemical weapons programme by mid-2014....
  • OPCW-UN team arrives in Damascus and sets up operational base
    20 Mar 2014 - 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 and the UN Security Council unanimously endorsed a...
  • UN Security Council endorses expeditious destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons programme
    20 Mar 2014 - 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 of Syria's chemical weapons programme, with...
  • OPCW-UN press release [update] on the advance team in Syria
    20 Mar 2014 - 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 Republic on its chemical weapons programme. At the end of...

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