OPCW

Does the UN Security Council Have an Arria-Formula Problem?

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 any …

Categories: Peace and Security, Security Council

OPINIONS

Was America’s Attack on Syria Legal? An Asian Expert’s View

Opinion by 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 States, …

Categories: Disarmament, Middle East, OPINIONS, Security Council, US Foreign Relations

Will All of Syria’s Arsenal of Chemical Weapons Be Destroyed?

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 on …

Categories: Disarmament, Libya, Middle East, Security Council

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How the Chemical Weapons Removed From Syria Will Be Destroyed

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 Norwegian …

Categories: Disarmament, Middle East

The OPCW Should Recommend Sanctions Against Syria for Missing Deadline

Opinion by 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 to …

Categories: OPINIONS

GOINGS-ON

A Dutchwoman Leads Mission to Destroy Syria’s Chemical Weapons

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 Syria’s …