Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons


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Noun1.Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons - international organization for chemical disarmament; administers the Chemical Weapons Convention
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is the implementing body of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which entered into force in 1997.
Russian and Turkish Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have discussed the situation in Syria over the phone and pointed to the importance of ensuring the necessary conditions for the work of inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in that country,TASSreports.
NNA - The Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that it sent an official invitation to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to send a team from the fact-finding mission to visit Douma and investigate claims related to the alleged use of chemical weapons there.
These remarks came during Guterres's meeting with the Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), expressing his support for its work in investigating allegations of the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
This came during a speech by the Ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to the Kingdom of the Netherlands Ambassador Abdulaziz Obouhamd on Monday at the Conference of States Parties to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in its twentieth session, which began in the Hague and lasts five days.
THE HAGUE, Dec.03(Saba)- Deputy Foreign Minister Amir al-Aidaroos met on Tuesday in the Dutch city of The Hague, Director of International Cooperation at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Mark Albon.
During the Syrian conflict, more than 160,000 people have died and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW, along with the United Nations are investigating the use of chlorine, an industrial chemical, during hostilities.
Summary: The "Monument of Halabja Massacre" was placed in the garden of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Headquarters in a ceremony attended by Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, the head of the chemical weapons watchdog Ahmet Uzumcu and the mayor of the Hague Jozias Johannes van rtsen along with many Iraqi Kurdish officials.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Monday that a 13th consignment of chemicals was shipped out of Latakia port in Syrian President Bashar Assad's home province, which means that just over 65 percent of Syria's internationally declared chemical weapons stockpile has been removed from the war-torn country, the Associated Press reported.
SOUNDBITE (English) Sigrid Kg, Special Coordinator of the joint mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW):
Ms Kaag is the Dutch diplomat leading the joint mission by the UN and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to destroy Syria's chemical stockpile.
The mission is being run jointly by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the report added.

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