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12.08.2024 Article

30th anniversary of Germany’s accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention: continuing to work for a world free of chemical weapons

30 years after Germany’s accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), significant progress has been made toward implementing the global ban on chemical weapons. A significant milestone was completion, in 2023, of the destruction of all officially declared chemical weapons stocks.

Staff members of GEKA (a publicly owned company specialised in the disposal of chemical warfare agents and hazardous military waste) wearing hazmat suits during a media event in Münster
19.03.2024 Article

Strengthening the Chemical Weapons Convention by updating Germany’s legislation

The Chemical Weapons Convention is one of the most successful multilateral disarmament treaties for the worldwide prohibition of chemical weapons. Germany’s legislation regarding the CWC has recently been revised.

Industry inspections carried out by the OPCW
11.07.2023 Article

Milestone along the way to disarmament: Last officially declared chemical weapons have been destroyed

Chemical weapons are among the most abhorrent weapons known to humankind. The United States, as the last country possessing such weapons, has just declared that it has fully destroyed its remaining stockpiles.

Destruction of chemical weapons at the „Blue Grass Army Depot“ in Kentucky, USA
29.04.2022 Article

25th anniversary of the Chemical Weapons Convention – Foreign Minister Baerbock and OPCW Director-General Arias pay tribute to one of the most successful disarmament treaties

Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Fernando Arias met Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock during his visit to Berlin. The Minister paid tribute to the important role played by the OPCW with respect to the rules-based order.

People walking in the Federal Foreign Office
27.05.2020 Article

Assistance with COVID‑19 diagnostics: the German Biosecurity Programme in the Sudan

The Federal Foreign Office is supporting partner countries via the German Biosecurity Programme. In the Sudan, the knowledge acquired in this context is also helping with the fight against COVID‑19.

The Robert Koch Institute is training scientists from the Sudan in diagnostics.
22.05.2020 Article

The German Biosecurity Programme

Germany is carrying out long term biosecurity projects in its German Biosecurity Programme.

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Press releases

  1. 23.02.2024 Press release

    Federal Foreign Office on the publication of the OPCW IIT report on the use of chemical weapons in Marea, Syria, in September 2015

  2. 28.01.2023 Press release

    Joint Statement on OPCW Report Finding Syrian Regime Responsible for Chemical Weapons Attack in Douma, Syria on April 7, 2018

  3. 07.10.2022 Press release

    Declaration on Biological Security by the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction

  4. 09.05.2022 Press release

    Statement of the G7 Non-Proliferation Directors Group

  5. 12.04.2021 Press release

    Federal Foreign Office on the second report by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ Investigation and Identification Team

  6. 07.10.2020 Press release

    Foreign Minister Maas on the results of the analysis conducted by the OPCW in the Navalny case

  7. 04.09.2020 Press release

    Joint communique by the Foreign Ministries of France and Germany

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