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	Defense Environment Alert 11.05.02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The OPCW is responsible for implementing the CWC, which bans the use of chemical weapons and requires their elimination.
		Like most international organizations, OPCW's budgets are based on the presumption that all member states will pay their assessments in full, and therefore had recorded as income nearly $1 million in unpaid assessments owed by 30 member states, as of August 2002.
		OPCW and the State Department have taken some preliminary steps to address the budget problems, such as creating a more accurate and timely invoicing process for inspection reimbursements and excluding assessments of member states in arrears when developing internal spending plans, GAO says.
	www.cwwg.org /dea11.05.02.html (608 words)

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		According to OPCW documents, when funding is limited, the Secretariat reduces the number of inspections at commercial chemical facilities that it conducts during the year.
		The OPCW is also reducing its estimates of income derived from inspection activities, based on the chemical weapons possessor states’ destruction plans, by 30 percent, to better reflect the historical level of activity.
		This problem was exacerbated in the OPCW by legislative and regulatory difficulties in the United States and Russia: neither country had authorization and funding to pay their Article IV/V inspection bills from 1999 through late CY 2001.
	www.gao.gov /atext/d035.txt (9765 words)

	Read Article
		OPCW Director-General Rogelio Pfirter commented upon the expected entry into force of the Convention in Libya, noting, “Libya’s historic initiative is a decision of signal importance, which, hopefully, will serve to guide and encourage other States to follow suit.
		OPCW Director-General Rogelio Pfirter reiterated in his discussion with H.E. Mr Shalgam the Organisation’s active support for Libya’s "farsighted and courageous decision to join the international community in upholding the ban on chemical weapons.
		The OPCW aims to achieve four principal objectives: to eliminate chemical weapons and to prevent their re-emergence, to implement a credible non-proliferation regime, to provide international assistance and protection in the event of the use, or threat of use, of chemical weapons, and to promote international cooperation in the peaceful use of chemistry.
	www.unobserver.com /layout5.php?id=1413&blz=1 (803 words)

	Facts on the Chemical Weapons Convention
		The OPCW is responsible for the implementation and verification of the convention.
		The OPCW is composed of three major bodies: the Conference of States Parties (CSP), the Executive Council (EC), and the Technical Secretariat (TS).
		According to the OPCW, the sole purpose of the challenge inspection is to clarify and resolve questions in relation to a possible non-compliance with the provisions of the convention.
	www.cdi.org /issues/cbw/chem.html (3064 words)

	CMS—Livermore Joins OPCW-Certified Laboratories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		OPCW laboratories must complete analysis and submit a report within 15 days of receiving the test samples.
		For example, during the 12th OPCW proficiency test, our team received a complex test sample originating from an “organic waste container.” This sample was spiked with two chemical weapons compounds and dibutyl-dithiophosphoramidic acid diethyl ester, a red herring.
		In the near future, the OPCW will begin sending samples obtained in the field under suspect conditions, and the OPCW team in the FSC must be fully prepared.
	www-cms.llnl.gov /s-t/opcw_cert2.html (1058 words)

	Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: The Chemical Weapons Convention: Has It Enhanced U.S. Security?
		Unless this situation is remedied, the OPCW may have to reduce its verification activities at operating chemical weapon destruction facilities in the United States, India, and South Korea, and to cut the number of industry inspections from the 140 it conducted last year to 25.
		Even more egregious, OPCW inspectors are currently required to allow host officials to copy all of the information in their notebooks, laptop computers, electronic cameras, and video recorders before they depart from an inspected industry site.
		Although the OPCW possesses the necessary tools to monitor and enforce compliance, the real question is whether the states-parties, in particular the United States, have the political will to implement the CWC in a way that strengthens non-proliferation norms and reduces the security threat posed by chemical weapons.
	www.armscontrol.org /act/2001_04/tucker.asp (3702 words)

	Preserving the Chemical Weapons Convention: The Need For A New Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ...
		The United States had hoped that the change in OPCW leadership that is necessary to preserve the credibility of the CWC could be accomplished quietly, thereby avoiding confrontation and damage to the OPCW.
		Regularly embarrassed the OPCW by his conduct at the United Nations, such as refusing to address the First Committee unless given a place on the dais and his public dispute over this issue with the UN Legal Adviser.
		Pressed for an OPCW standing committee to coordinate international financial assistance for Russia's CW destruction, despite donors' clear preference for using existing mechanisms that are external to the OPCW.
	www.state.gov /t/ac/rls/fs/9120.htm (2263 words)

	A Coup in The Hague
		"The new OPCW, after my ousting, is already undergoing radical structural changes, along the lines of the US recipe, which will strike a definitive blow to the post of the Director General, making it once and for all a mere figurehead of a sham international regime," says Bustani.
		We believe in the universality of the convention." However, he says that the OPCW should not be miscontrued as a substitue for existing United Nations weapons inspections efforts.
		Under Bustani's leadership, the OPCW brought 58 new nations into the fold and oversaw the destruction of two-thirds of the world's chemical weapons facilities.
	www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2002/06/bustani_profile.html (1321 words)

	Statement by Jose Bustani, Director-General of the Organization on the Prohibtion of Chemical Weapons - 9/11 - Global ...
		I am proud of the unprecedented growth in the membership of the Organisation — which is the clearest evidence of the respect for the OPCW amongst its States Parties, as well as amongst the ever-dwindling number of States not party.
		I insist on measures that will ensure that OPCW inspectors verify those weapons and equipment which the OPCW must verify, rather than merely those which might be volunteered by a State Party for verification.
		And to establish such a precedent within an organisation such as the OPCW, which is not in the public eye of the international community as are some of its cousins, is easy.
	www.globalpolicy.org /wtc/analysis/2002/0421bustani.htm (3135 words)

	Australia's National Authority for the Chemical Weapons Convention
		OPCW inspections are conducted by a small team from the Organisation's Technical Secretariat, but all OPCW inspectors are accompanied at all times by ASNO officers and site representatives.
		OPCW inspectors are employed full-time by the Organisation and they work under strict rules governing the protection of confidential information.
		The OPCW organises courses and training events which are aimed to enhance the awareness of the CWC.
	www.dfat.gov.au /cwco (2363 words)

	Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): CWC Special Paper No. 1, December 2002
		When the OPCW was established in 1997 - with a mandate to ensure the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) - the treaty negotiators had agreed that its two policy-making bodies, the Executive Council and the Conference of the States Parties (CSP), should make decisions by two-thirds majority vote.
		OPCW document: Report of the Executive Council on the Performance of its Activities (3 April 2000 - 23 February 2001), EC.XXXIV/3, 6 April 2001, paragraph 6, subparagraphs (l), (p), (v) and (dd).
		OPCW Financial Regulations, C-1/DEC/3, paragraph 6.6: "All transfers of funds made from the Working Capital Fund to finance budgetary appropriations shall be reimbursed as soon as feasible, but in any case within the financial period in which they are made".
	www.acronym.org.uk /textonly/cwc/spec01.htm (5853 words)

	Jordan considers mass destruction weapons 'threat' to regional stability - official (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The authority, which represents the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in Jordan — responsible for the implementation of the provisions of the 1993 Paris convention — is hosting the symposium, which is aimed at discussing ways of promoting the ban of chemical weapons by OPCW member states.
		The Hague-based OPCW, which is not a member of the U.N. family, coordinates closely with the Security Council but can only inspect OPCW member states for adherence to the Paris convention.
		OPCW has its own team of 220 inspectors who have undergone six-months of training and are paid for by the OPCW.
	www.jordanembassyus.org /062598006.htm (452 words)

	OPCW
		OPCW Conference Support Programme, which will come into effect on 15 March 2000, and will supersede all previous forms of support provided by the OPCW for the organisers of and participants at scientific meetings.
		In the future, instead of providing support to individuals, the OPCW Conference Support Programme will assist institutions or recognised scientific organisations in Member States to organise conferences, seminars or other kinds of meeting on a relevant subject.
		The OPCW will accept applications for support under the programme only from representatives of a conference/seminar organising body in an institution or a recognised and registered scientific organisation in a Member State.
	www.diamond-congress.hu /eurocorr/opcw.htm (688 words)

	CMS—Lab Certified for OPCW Work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The OPCW is responsible for implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention, which has been ratified by more than 135 nations, including the United States.
		Under a condition set by the U.S. Senate, all samples taken by OPCW inspectors at U.S. chemical plants must be tested in the United States.
		Among the Lab researchers who participated in the OPCW tests were Hugh Gregg (a co-principal investigator), Rich Whipple, Tuijanna Mitchell Hall, Andy Vance, Bob Maxwell, John Reynolds, Greg Klunder, Fred Cone and Fowzia Zaka.
	www-cms.llnl.gov /s-t/opcw_cert.html (578 words)

	Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
		The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was created under the Convention to ensure the implementation of its provisions and to provide a forum for consultation and co-operation.
		The OPCW in The Hague is the implementing organisation.
		In the period 1998-2000, the OPCW conducted seven inspections in South African facilities.
	www.dfa.gov.za /foreign/Multilateral/inter/opcw.htm (614 words)

	Implications of the CWC Implementation for the BWC Protocol Negotiations: 15-16 May 1999, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
		The OPCW is currently running a programme to improve its capability to investigate allegations of use of chemical weapons.
		The clarification process used by the OPCW in such cases was of particular interest to workshop participants, in the light of discussions on this subject in the Ad Hoc Group.
		However, an international organisation such as the OPCW does not have the legal authority to look into the furthest reaches of a state's chemical industry, so oversight of such activities must therefore be undertaken by national authorities.
	www.pugwash.org /reports/cbw/cbw4.htm (5751 words)

	Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): CWC Review Conference, April 28 - May 9, 2003
		For such situations, the OPCW must have the capacity, and be ready at all times, to investigate the need for follow-on action by the OPCW and by individual Member States, and to facilitate the delivery of assistance.
		The States Parties have established the OPCW to achieve the object and purpose of the Convention, to ensure the implementation of its provisions, including those for international verification of compliance with it, and to provide a forum for consultation and cooperation among the States Parties.
		The OPCW has at its disposal qualified and trained staff, and equipment and procedures fit for the tasks to be fulfilled under the Convention.
	www.acronym.org.uk /textonly/cwc/03revdoc.htm (8988 words)

	CWC and BWC Experience Sharing: 8-9 April 2000, Oegstgeest, The Netherlands
		As of 1 March, OPCW inspectors have witnessed the destruction of 1,140,000 munitions and bulk containers and 4,284 tonnes of chemical agent out of the 8.4 million munitions and bulk containers and 70,000 tonnes of agent that have been declared.
		The workshop heard that the OPCW is still developing its links with civil society and that these efforts indeed suffer from a lack of public attention to chemical weapons.
		However, on the other side, it was argued that in fact not all OPCW delegations had accepted the situation and that a continued lack of progress there would influence their position within the AHG.
	www.pugwash.org /reports/cbw/cbw8.htm (5481 words)

	Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): CWC Report: Emerging From a Trial by Fire?
		The OPCW's finances were also assisted by voluntary contributions and assistance received in 2002 from a number of states parties, including the Netherlands, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
		The OPCW has suffered significant financial crises over recent years, resulting in reduced programme delivery and the decision not to fill some 30 fixed-term positions at the Secretariat - as well as the very real possibility, at one stage, of the OPCW lacking funds to remain in operation.
		This is to be contrasted both with the zero budget growth for the OPCW over 1999-2001 and the 11.3 percent increase originally proposed by the Secretariat for 2003.
	www.acronym.org.uk /cwc/report.htm (5308 words)

	OPCW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		President Olusegun Oba-sanjo yesterday said there was an urgent need for Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to establish an office in Africa to strengthen its operations in the continent.
		OPCW Executive Council starts 41st session in the Hague
		THE HAGUE, June 28 (Itar-Tass) -- The 41st session of the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) began in the Hague on Tuesday.
	www.infothis.com /find/OPCW (108 words)

	Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: New OPCW Head Appointed
		The OPCW, which is responsible for implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), had been without a director-general since April, when Brazilian José Bustani was ousted by a special session of CWC states-parties.
		One of the primary challenges facing the new director-general is the budget shortfall the OPCW has experienced since January 2001, which resulted in the organization completing little more than half of its chemical industry inspections last year.
		In a telephone interview August 23, Deputy Director-General of the OPCW John Gee, who served as acting director-general after Bustani’s dismissal, called the organization’s financial situation “precarious” and cited late payments from the four member states that possess chemical weapons as a major strain on the budget.
	www.armscontrol.org /act/2002_09/opcw_sept02.asp (492 words)

	Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
		The OPCW is a 2-3 minute walk from the tram stop, not far from the ICTY and the city's conference centre (Congresscentrum).
		Some OPCW conferences take place at the conference centre of The Hague (Congresscentrum), which is located very near the OPCW headquarters.
		This article was written by Véronique Chatterjee-Mars with the invaluable assistance of Ms Loreto Bravo, Ms Maja Drazenovic and Mr.
	www.aiic.net /viewpage.cfm/page1163.htm (443 words)

	OPCW-PC history
		The CWC is the only international treaty to require and to verify the disarmament and non-proliferation of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction.
		That OPCW could operate effectively at entry into force of the Convention represents the achievement of the OPCW Preparatory Commission ("the Commission").
		A key HSP resource is the Sussex Harvard Information Bank, its unique archive of material on chemical/biological warfare issues, which is open to other researchers and students in the field.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /Units/spru/hsp/OPCW-PC%20History.html (705 words)

	US diplomatic might irks nations \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The OPCW was set up in 1997 to oversee the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, a treaty banning such weapons and providing for the destruction of stockpiles.
		Several OPCW officials and delegates to this week's special session at OPCW headquarters here agreed that Bustani had displayed a secretive and abrasive management style, offending a number of key governments in the organization.
		Critics of US policy have suggested that hardliners in Washington feared Iraq's membership in the OPCW, which would subject it to the organization's own chemical weapons inspections, might undercut their plans to topple Saddam Hussein on the grounds that he was keeping international weapons inspectors out.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0424/p06s01-woeu.html (1029 words)

	Disarmament Diplomacy: CWC Report - The CWC After Its First Review Conference: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
		The Conference, held at OPCW headquarters in The Hague, marked the culmination of a process commencing in May 2001, when the Sixth Session of the Conference of States Parties (CSP) to the OPCW tasked the Executive Council (EC) of the Organisation to begin preparations for the gathering.
		At the same time, the OPCW has experienced a number of severe difficulties, notably the financial crisis of 2001 and the ousting of the first Director General, José Bustani (see endnote 2) in April 2002.
		A second, related phenomenon was a tendency by some to divert attention from their own records on compliance by focusing on the need for the OPCW to maintain an unchanged, rigid approach to verification and inspections - opposing, for example, the re-focusing of industry declarations, or any relaxation of the verification of CW destruction activities.
	www.acronym.org.uk /dd/dd71/71cwc.htm (6752 words)

	International organization participation. The World Factbook. 2003
		CE (observer), IAEA, ICFTU, IOM (observer), ITU, NAM (guest), OAS (observer), OPCW, OSCE, UN (observer), UNCTAD, UNHCR, UPU, WHO (observer), WIPO, WToO (observer), WTrO (observer)
		CE, EBRD, ECE, EFTA, IAEA, ICCt, ICRM, IFRCS, Interpol, IOC, ITU, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UPU, WIPO, WTrO
		ACP, AsDB, C, ESCAP, FAO, ICAO, ICCt, Interpol, IOC, ITU, OPCW, Sparteca, SPC, SPF, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO
	www.bartleby.com /151/fields/56.html (6171 words)

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