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1997 Apr 29 |
The UN ban on chemical weapons went into effect. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was formed this year to enforce the Chemical Weapons convention. Links: UN, Chemistry, OPCW 
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2006 Dec 11 |
The Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said it has granted the US and Russia a five-year extension to the 2007 deadline for destroying their chemical weapon stockpiles. The Chemicals Weapons Convention which went into effect in April 1997. Extensions were also granted to India and Libya as well as one country that requested anonymity. Links: Russia, USA, India, Libya, Chemistry, OPCW
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2013 Sep 20 |
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague said Syria has submitted details of its chemical weapons to the organization. Links: Syria, OPCW
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2013 Sep 21 |
The Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons (OPCW) said Syria has handed over complete data on its chemical arsenal to the world's watchdog, meeting a deadline to avert military strikes, as regime aircraft pounded targets across the country. Links: Netherlands, Syria, OPCW
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2013 Nov 30 |
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said the US has offered to help destroy some of the most lethal parts of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile at an offshore facility. Links: USA, Syria, OPCW
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2017 Oct 4 |
It was reported that an examination by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) found that samples from an attack by Syrian forces last March 30 on the opposition-held town of Latamneh tested positive for the banned nerve agent sarin. Links: Syria, WMD, OPCW
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2017 Nov 8 |
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow opposed a draft UN resolution to extend the mandate of the investigation by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) into chemical weapons attacks in Syria. Links: Russia, UN, Syria, OPCW
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2018 Feb 4 |
A Syrian air force military helicopter dropped a chlorine cylinder on the northern town of Saraqeb, sickening 12 people. In 2021 an OPCW investigation team said it found evidence that a military helicopter belonging to the Tiger Forces of the Syrian air force dropped at least one chlorine cylinder on the rebel-held town of Saraqeb. Links: Syria, OPCW
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2018 Apr 4 |
At The Hague Britain and Russia accused each other of duplicity and untrustworthiness. London slammed as "perverse" a Russian proposal for a joint probe into the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia at the start of a meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Links: Russia, Britain, Netherlands, OPCW
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2018 Apr 15 |
In Syria inspectors from the OPCW chemical watchdog began their investigation at the site of the alleged April 7 chemical attack near Damascus. Syria and Russia stalled access to Douma by international OPCW experts seeking to probe an alleged poison gas attack there, citing security concerns. Links: Syria, OPCW
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2018 Apr 16 |
The United Nations said it has provided the "necessary clearances" for a fact-finding mission from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to investigate a suspected chemical attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma. Links: UN, OPCW
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2018 Apr 17 |
In Syria OPCW chemical weapons inspectors finally reached Douma, the town where a suspected poison gas attack took place, days after the United States, Britain and France launched missile strikes to punish Damascus for it. Links: Syria, OPCW
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2018 Apr 18 |
In Syria a UN security team came under fire while doing reconnaissance for OPCW inspectors to visit sites of a suspected chemical weapons attack, and officials said it was no longer clear when the inspectors would be able to go in. The Syrian "White Helmets" rescue organization has pinpointed for international inspectors the places where the victims of the suspected chemical weapons attack on April 7 are buried. Links: UN, Syria, OPCW
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2018 Apr 21 |
In Syria International experts from the global agency for the monitoring of chemical weapons (OPCW) set off to the site in Douma of a suspected April 7 gas attack. Links: Syria, OPCW
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2018 Apr 25 |
In Syria OPCW chemical weapons inspectors collected samples from a new location in Douma, their second visit to the area that was hit by a suspected gas attack on April 7. Russia has even said the attack was staged and Russian diplomats said they plan to bring evidence of this to the OPCW. Links: Russia, Syria, OPCW
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2018 May 3 |
A team of experts from the OPCW returned to the Netherlands from their mission after going to Damascus on April 14. Inspectors for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had completed their work at the site of a suspected gas attack in the Syrian town of Douma. Links: Netherlands, Syria, OPCW
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2018 Jun 13 |
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said sarin was likely used on March 24, 2017, as a chemical weapon in an attack in Syria at Ltamenah, Hama province, and that chlorine was likely used the following day at the Ltamenah Hospital. Links: Syria, OPCW
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2018 Jun 26 |
Britain moved to bolster the global chemical weapons organization, calling for its members to vote on a proposal to give it new powers to identify those responsible for attacks with banned poison munitions. The call for a vote was made at a special session of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), where more than 140 countries have gathered to discuss the watchdog's future. Links: Britain, OPCW
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2018 Jun 26 |
Russia, backed by Iran and Syria, sought to head off a Western push to endow the world's global chemical watchdog (OPCW) with new powers to identify those behind toxic arms attacks. Links: Russia, Iran, Syria, OPCW
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2018 Jun 27 |
At The Hague the world's chemical weapons watchdog won new powers to assign blame for attacks with banned toxic munitions. The rare special session agreed that the OPCW's secretariat "shall put in place arrangements to identify the perpetrators of the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic." Russia and 23 other countries voted against the move, which was initiated by Britain. Links: Netherlands, Syria, OPCW
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2018 Nov 20 |
Russia failed in its bid to stall the global chemical warfare watchdog's controversial new power to apportion blame for attacks like those in Syria. Member states approved the 2019 budget for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which includes funding for the new role. Links: Russia, OPCW
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2018 Nov 22 |
US Ambassador Kenneth Ward told a meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) at The Hague that Iran had failed to report a production facility for the filling of aerial bombs and maintains a program to obtain banned toxic munitions. Links: USA, OPCW
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2020 Apr 8 |
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) issued a report blaming the Syrian air force for a series of chemical attacks using sarin and chlorine in late March 2017 on the central town of Ltamenah. Links: Syria, OPCW
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2020 Oct 2 |
The global chemical weapons watchdog (OPCW) said that two investigations into alleged attacks in Syria in 2016 and 2018 couldn't establish that chemicals were used as weapons in attacks in Saraqib in the Idlib region on Aug. 1, 2016, and in Aleppo on Nov. 24, 2018. Links: Syria, WMD, OPCW
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2020 Dec 11 |
The global chemical weapons watchdog (OPCW) criticized Syria for failing to declare a chemical weapons production facility and respond to 18 other issues. Russia accused the watchdog of conducting a “political crusade” against its close ally, the Syrian government. Links: Syria, OPCW
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2021 Apr 14 |
Syria rejected as fabricated the results of an investigation by the OPCW that a Syrian air force military helicopter dropped a chlorine cylinder on the northern town of Saraqeb on Feb 4, 2018. Links: Syria, OPCW
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2021 Apr 20 |
A group of 46 nations called on member states of the global chemical weapons watchdog (OPCW) to diplomatically rebuke Syria for using toxic gas and nerve agents in the country's decade-long civil war. Links: Syria, OPCW
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2021 Jun 3 |
The head of the international chemical weapons watchdog told the UN Security Council that its experts have investigated 77 allegations against Syria, and concluded that in 17 cases chemical weapons were likely or definitely used. Links: UN, Syria, OPCW
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