Chemical Weapons Convention
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • July 6, 2021
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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought enormous changes and challenges to the United Nations Security Council. One result has been the heightened politicization and proliferation of the Arria-formula meetings, or informal sessions, of the Council that can be initiated by…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Opinion by Yasuhiro Ueki
- • April 26, 2017
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The images of civilians, particularly children, being asphyxiated by chemical substances and dying in Idlib Province of Syria on April 4 were a game changer. Judging that the chemical attack was carried out by the Syrian government, the United…
- Categories: Disarmament, Middle East, OPINIONS, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • February 26, 2017
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The chilling accusation by Malaysia that the assassins who killed Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, used the world’s most powerful chemical toxin has set off a global shockwave well beyond Asia. Malaysian authorities…
- Categories: Asia, Disarmament, Take a Look
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 22, 2016
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Seven possible cases of chemical weapons use in Syria — including chlorine and mustard gas — have been identified in a preliminary report released by a United Nations panel investigating who has deployed toxic weapons in the country’s civil…
- Categories: Disarmament, Peace and Security
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- Alexander Brotman
- • October 24, 2014
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After an extraordinary effort from the United Nations, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and about a half dozen countries, including the United States and Russia, 96 percent of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal has been destroyed, acting…
- Categories: Disarmament, Libya, Middle East, Security Council
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- Alexander Brotman
- • July 1, 2014
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Although Syria has turned over all of its declared chemical weapons stockpile to international authorities, defying expectations that it would not meet a June 30 deadline, the next hurdle is securely destroying the material outside the country. Danish and…
- Categories: Disarmament, Middle East
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- Opinion by Kate Campbell and W.E. DaCruz
- • June 13, 2014
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has removed more than 80 percent of the world’s declared stockpile of chemical weapons through its oversight of the Chemical Weapons Convention, but the Syrian case has posed a serious challenge…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 6, 2013
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The New York Times has assigned Somini Sengupta to be its new full-time bureau chief at the United Nations. Sengupta replaces Neil MacFarquhar, who left the position this summer after five years and will be based in Moscow for the…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 26, 2013
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In rare action-packed diplomacy at the United Nations, a draft resolution was agreed on Sept. 26 by the five permanent members of the Security Council, reinforcing the plan made earlier in the month between Russia and the United States…
- Categories: Disarmament, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 16, 2013
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The much-awaited report by the United Nations investigative mission on the use of chemical weapons in Syria on Aug. 21 in Ghouta has been handed over to the secretary-general by Ake Sellstrom, the head of the mission; it has…
- Categories: Disarmament, Middle East, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 3, 2013
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In the daily unfolding drama behind the recent investigation by a United Nations team on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today that all biomedical and environmental samples gathered by the inspectors…
- Categories: Disarmament, Middle East, Secretary-General, Security Council
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