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"Twenty years after the entry into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention: looking back and looking forward"

Please register to the Side Event using the Online Registration Form below

• Date and Time: Tuesday, 23rd May 2017, 9:30 - 12:00
• Venue: (same as the SICC 2017 Conference) Istituto Superiore Antincendi - National Fire Academy, Via del Commercio 13, 00154 Rome, Italy
• Welcome Coffee
• Opening
• • Keynote Speech by the Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, Director-General of the OPCW.
  • Welcome Address by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
• Panel Discussion
  A round-table of internationally-known experts from diplomacy, academy and industry will discuss latest developments, achievements and challenges. Brief session of questions and answers will follow.

Please note that every participant that is registered to SICC 2017 Conference will also have access to the "OPCW 20th Anniversary" Side Event. Who wants only to attend the side event (but not the Conference) should use the online registration form available below. The Side Event is free of charge. However, online registration is mandatory to have access to the Side Event due to organizational and security reasons. Also, it is possible to buy a lunch ticket at https://www.hesar.it/eng/events/registration-sicc-2017/. Please register to SICC 2017 Conference (click here) if you want to participate at the SICC 2017 Conference activities, at the scientific sessions, at the industrial exhibition, and taking part in the social events, the gala dinner, and more . . . 

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) comprehensively prohibits the use, development, production, stockpiling and transfer of chemical weapons. Any chemical used for warfare is considered a chemical weapon by the Convention. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is the implementing body of the CWC and oversees the global endeavour to permanently eliminate chemical weapons.

The Convention entered into force in 1997. With 192 countries obligating themselves to the CWC, it is the most successful disarmament treaty in existence, eliminating an entire class of weapons of mass destruction. To date, over 93 per cent of all chemical weapon stockpiles declared by possessor states have been destroyed under OPCW verification. For its extensive efforts in eliminating chemical weapons, the OPCW received the 2013 Nobel Prize for Peace.

Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü is Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and a career diplomat with vast experience in multilateral diplomacy and disarmament and non-proliferation issues.

Prior to his appointment as Director-General of the OPCW in December 2009, he was Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations in Geneva, where he chaired the Conference on Disarmament in March 2008.

Ambassador Üzümcü has also served as Deputy Undersecretary of State for Bilateral Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, as Turkey’s Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and as Ambassador of Turkey to Israel, in addition to earlier postings to NATO, Aleppo and Vienna.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Ankara University and speaks English and French fluently.

Ambassador Üzümcü received the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the OPCW in December 2013.

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If you want to take part to the other SICC 2017 Conference activities please visit the Registration Page. Do not miss the opportunity to join the scientific sessions, the social events, the gala dinner, and more.