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Uziimcii

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2016-12-15
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  1. “We believe that the newly established OPCW Rapid Response Assistance Mission will provide an important capability to the mechanism. We must continue to strengthen our cooperation in order to fully implement our legal obligations, whether they originate in international treaties, such as the CWC, or instruments such as resolution 1540 (2004). OPCW remains ready to further strengthen its cooperation with relevant international institutions, relevant communities and civil society in order to ensure that non- State actors do not reach out to weapons of mass destruction.”

    2016-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7837 (2016) · source

  2. “The OPCW Open-ended Working Group on Terrorism regularly regularly reviews the opportunities for enhanced interaction and coordination between the concerned international entities, including the 1540 (2004) mechanism. We also have an active partnership with the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force. Together with the International Atomic Energy Agency, OPCW co-chairs the Working Group on Preventing and Responding to WMD Terrorist Attacks. Early next year, OPCW will host a tabletop exercise, with the participation of various organizations, to test an inter-agency mechanism to respond to a chemical terrorist attack. The mechanism will enhance the interoperability of relevant organizations for an effective response.”

    2016-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7837 (2016) · source

  3. “OPCW works closely with customs authorities and the chemical industry, and that cooperation is making further progress through certain new arrangements. We also count on the invaluable support of the chemical industry worldwide, which has fully understood the importance of preventing any misuse of chemicals. The Scientific Advisory Board of the OPCW, composed of 25 eminent experts, provides its recommendations for mitigating the proliferation risks emanating from scientific and technological advances. The threat posed by terrorists represents an ever- present danger. We know from recent investigations that Da'esh has in fact used chemical weapons in Syria and Iraq. The international legal framework offers several avenues for enhanced cooperation and coordination by international organizations in the context of counter- terrorism.”

    2016-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7837 (2016) · source

  4. “For States parties that possess declarable industrial facilities, additional measures are required under the Convention. Criminalizing activities that the Convention prohibits and establishing measures that would enforce those rules accords entirely with the objectives of resolution 1540 (2004). Controls on transfers of scheduled chemicals are an important aspect of the Convention's non-proliferation regime. Such activities are regulated under article VI of the Convention and are mentioned in paragraphs 3 (c) and (d) of resolution 1540 (2004). Hundreds of thousands of tons of scheduled chemicals are traded internationally every year for purposes not prohibited under the Convention. it is evident that this perfectly legitimate trade needs to be monitored and controlled.”

    2016-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7837 (2016) · source

  5. “Our internship programme for legal drafters is aimed at enhancing the technical skills of participants so as to enable them to complete a draft of national implementing legislation. The OPCW secretariat has actively focused on offering practical, on-site assistance tailored to the need of States parties that have requested it. A mentorship programme facilitates the transfer of best practices between States. These activities have produced concrete results. Some 118 States parties have adopted legislative and administrative measures to implement the provisions of the Convention that are the most pertinent to its object and purpose. Thirty-two States parties have adopted implementing measures that cover some of the initial measures. Forty-two States parties have yet to adopt implementing legislation.”

    2016-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7837 (2016) · source

  6. “The effectiveness of legislative and other regulatory measures and of the internal structures that administer them is critical to preventing non-State actors from gaining access to materials that could aid the development of chemical weapons. Full compliance at the national level with the obligations arising from the Convention provides a good measure of protection against proliferation. In that regard, through a range of programmes that are regularly conducted by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), we have assisted our States parties in fulfilling their obligations. In particular, the OPCW secretariat reviews drafts of implementing legislation and provides comments thereon in order to ensure that the drafts meet the requirements of the Convention.”

    2016-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7837 (2016) · source

  7. “The Convention therefore creates obligations in the context of non-proliferation that broadly translate into two main areas: industrial verification and data reporting, on the one hand, and the promulgation and enforcement of national legislation, on the other. Industrial inspections are an essential part of our mandate. Since 1997, 3,400 such inspections have been carried out in over 80 States parties. More specifically, in the context of resolution 1540 (2004), many of the measures contained in its operative paragraphs that deal with chemical weapons correspond to the obligations that States parties have already assumed under the Convention.”

    2016-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7837 (2016) · source

  8. “Today, 94 per cent of the world's declared chemical weapons have been destroyed under international verification. That amounts to more than 65,000 tons ofthe deadliest poisons ever produced, including Syrian and Libyan chemical weapons. An entire class of weapons of mass destruction is now at the threshold of being completely eradicated. That would be an unprecedented achievement in the history of disarmament. Apart from clearly contributing to global security, the possibilities for non-State actors gaining access to military-grade stockpiles have been virtually eliminated. The objective of banishing a category of weapons will remain elusive, however, without related measures to prevent their re-emergence.”

    2016-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7837 (2016) · source

  9. “Mr. Uziimcii: It is a great honour for me to address the Security Council. I welcome the adoption today of resolution 2325 (2016), concerning the mechanism established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). I thank you, Sir, for the kind invitation to me to attend this important meeting. As an all-encompassing treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) seeks to achieve its goals not only through core disarmament and non-proliferation measures, but also by engendering international cooperation and offering assistance and protection against chemical weapons. These pillars of the Convention translate in turn into several programme areas. I will confine my remarks to the parts of our mandate that most directly support the objectives of resolution 1540 (2004).”

    2016-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7837 (2016) · source