Tasnim The Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ahmet Uzumcu paid homage to the victims of a 1987 chemical bombing of the northwestern city of Sardasht by the Iraqi army under former dictator Saddam Hussein. Every year on 28 June, we come together to mourn the men and women who perished and those who ...

Tasnim Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ahmet Uzumcu said all issues in Syria, including those related to purported gas attacks there, are usually used for politicized purposes. All the state parties with the chemical weapons convention have the obligation to declare their chemical weapons,...

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IRNA | Mehdi Ghorbani: Ahmet �z�mc�, Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday.      

MNA Ahmet zmc, Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday. Speaking during the meeting, Zarif said the Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the victims of the chemical weapons use by the regime of Saddam during the eight-year Imposed War emphasizing ...

IRNA - Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will visit Iran on the 30th anniversary of Sardasht tragedy of chemical attack. OPCW Head to visit Iran on Sardasht chemical attack anniversary Ahmet Uzumcu in a message on marking the 30th anniversary of Iraqs former dictator Saddam Hussein against Iranian ...

Mahabad, West Azarbaijan Prov., June 28, IRNA Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Ahmet zmc expressed condolences with the victims of Sardasht chemical attack. The statement was read out in a ceremony held in Sardasht on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the chemical bombing of the city located in northwestern ...

  The director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has paid tribute tovictims of Iraqi chemical attacks on an Iranian border city 27 years ago. On behalf of the OPCW, I wish to convey my deepest sympathies to the authorities and people of Sardasht for those who suffered and perished as a result of this ...

[caption id="attachment_59283" align="alignright" width="180"] Foreign-backed militants operating in Syria (file photo)[/caption] The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has praised Russia for its role in the removal of Syrias chemical arms stockpile. "We highly appreciate Russia's efforts," Ahmet Uzumcu, the OPCW head,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The head of the world chemical weapons watchdog said on Tuesday the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons could begin in late January. "We hope that by the end of January, the destruction on the American ship could start," the director general of the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ahmet ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Ahmet Uzumcu described Iran as an active and effective member of the OPCW. Uzumcu made the remarks in a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for International and Legal Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi on the sidelines of the 18th Session of the Conference ...

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has called for a short-term ceasefire in Syria to allow its inspectors to continue their task to destroy the Arab countrys chemical weapons. Ahmet Uzumcu, the OPCW head, said on Monday that the Syrian government has been co-operating and facilitating the work of the team of experts since ...

LONDON Urging the destruction of an entire category of unconventional weapons, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its 2013 Peace Prize on Friday to a relatively modest and little-known United Nations-backed body that has drawn sudden attention with a mission to destroy Syrias stocks of chemical arms under a deal brokered by Russia and the United ...

A second team of international chemical weapons inspectors has joined a mission already in Syria, as part of an agreement to eliminate the Syrian chemical arms. The group includes inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations. Earlier in the day, a spokesman for the team said that the inspectors ...