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Syria submits additional information to the OPCW
4 October 2013 - Press release [bulletin] from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations. At a meeting of the OPCW Executive Council held on 3 October 2013, Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü…
Syria chemical weapons team reports encouraging progress
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…
Chemical weapons team gets down to work in Syria
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…
OPCW-UN team arrives in Damascus and sets up operational base
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…
UN Security Council endorses expeditious destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons programme
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…
OPCW Executive Council adopts historic decision on destruction of Syria chemical weapons
27 September 2013 - The OPCW Executive Council today adopted a historic decision [PDF - 28 KB] on the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons. In a special session, the 41-member body agreed on an accelerated programme for…
Executive Council notes “increasing pace” in moving chemicals out of Syria
7 March 2014 - OPCW-UN Joint Mission verifies nearly 29% of total chemical stockpile has been removed The Executive Council concluded its 75th Session today with a consensus report that "positively noted" the progress that…
Syria submits revised proposal to OPCW for removal of chemicals
4 March 2014 - The Syrian Arab Republic has submitted to the OPCW a revised proposal that aims to complete the removal of all chemicals from Syria before the end of April 2014. The OPCW-UN Joint Mission also verified that two…
OPCW-UN Mission confirms removal of sulphur mustard stockpile from Syria
26 February 2014 - Statement of the Special Coordinator of the Joint Mission Ms. Sigrid KaagToday, a shipment of the Syrian Arab Republic’s stockpile of sulphur mustard, commonly known as “mustard gas” has left its territory…
OPCW awards contracts to two companies for destruction of Syrian chemicals and Effluents
14 February 2014 - Following a rigorous tendering process, the OPCW Director-General, Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, announced today that the OPCW has awarded contracts to the following two companies with respect to the Call for…