OPCW
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • July 6, 2021
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
- Yasuhiro Ueki
- • April 26, 2017
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, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Alexander Brotman
- • October 24, 2014
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
- Alexander Brotman
- • July 1, 2014
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
- Kate Campbell and W.E. DaCruz
- • June 13, 2014
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: WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 23, 2013
Sigrid Kaag, a Dutch national, has been named special coordinator for the joint mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations, which began its work Oct. 16 to manage the destruction of…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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