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A Zoom Webinar Tuesday, March 26, 2024 10:00 – 11:00 a.m., U.S. Eastern Time Although all member states of the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention have verifiably completed the destruction of the chemical weapons stockpiles as required by the treaty, the regime still faces compliance challenges. Ten years after Syria’s massive declared chemical arsenal was removed […]

The CWC Coalition hosted a webinar Tuesday, November 14 on the key issues facing the Chemical Weapons Convention ahead of its annual Conference of States Parties in The Hague from November 27 through December 1, 2023. The webinar highlighted key issues, followed by a general discussion with all participants with a goal of defining the issues that civil

When the United States ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 1997, it took on the legal obligation and the complex technical and engineering task of destroying its massive Cold War-era chemical weapons stockpile, which consisted of some 31,500 tons (63,000,000 pounds) of deadly chemical agents much of which were loaded in various forms of

The CWC Coalition hosted a virtual discussion August 16, 2023 on the registration process for nongovernmental organizations hoping to attend the 28th CWC Conference of States Parties. Topics included: Speakers included:

The Fifth Five-Year Review Conference (RC-5) for the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention will be held in the Hague from May 15-19, 2023. At the conference, member states and the broader chemical weapons disarmament community will gather to assess past achievements, treaty implementation, and compliance, and discuss plans to strengthen the CWC in the years ahead.

Tuesday, February 22, 202210:00 am – 11:30 am EST (Washington, DC time)  In July 2012, the Syrian government publicly acknowledged for the first time what had long been suspected: that Syria possessed an arsenal of chemical weapons stockpile. A year later, in August 2013, Syrian military forces launched a large-scale Sarin gas attack outside Damascus

23 September 202110:00 am – 11:30 am Washington DC Time As part of its treaty obligations to the Chemical Weapons Convention, the United States must finish destroying all of its declared chemical weapons stockpiles by September 2023.  With two years remaining before the stockpile elimination deadline, the CWC Coalition organized a discussion to cover what

June 29, 202110:00 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Time Ahead of the OPCW’s 97th Executive Council meeting next month and the 26th Conference of States Parties later this year, the debate surrounding central nervous system (CNS)-acting chemicals and their regulation continues. At the previous Executive Council meeting in March of this year, the council voted to adopt a decision recommending that,

May 10, 202110:00 AM Eastern Time The Chemical Weapons Convention Coalition, in cooperation with the Arms Control Association, hosted this briefing to review the results and implications of the 25th Conference of States Parties for the work of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the CWC regime. Opening remarks were provided by H.E. Fernando Arias,