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OPCW team completes first week of work in Syria
6 October 2013 - A group of OPCW Technical Secretariat experts who were part of the advanced team that has been in Damascus since 1 October has returned to The Hague. This group was tasked to engage with the Syrian authorities in accordance with Operative Paragraph One of the decision of the…
Syria chemical weapons destruction begins
6 October 2013 - Press release [bulletin] by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations. The process of destroying Syria's chemical weapons programme began today. Under the supervision of experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons…
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 informed that the OPCW Technical Secretariat has received information from…
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 programme has made encouraging initial progress, following the first working…
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 of its chemical weapons programme by mid-2014. Joint work with the Syrian…
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 and the UN Security Council unanimously endorsed a plan to send them to…
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 of Syria's chemical weapons programme, with inspections to begin by 1…
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 achieving the complete elimination of Syria's chemical weapons by mid-2014…
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 has been made with respect to eliminating the Syrian chemical weapons…
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 more consignments of chemicals have left the port of Latakia, including a…