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- Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is an intergovernmental organization
- It is implementing body for Chemical Weapons Convention that entered into force in April 1997
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been reelected to the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for the term 2022-2024, the foreign office said on Saturday.
The elections were held during the recently concluded 26th Session of the Conference of States Parties in The Hague from November 29 to December 2, 2021.
“The re-election of Pakistan to the 41 member Executive Council of the OPCW is a testament to Pakistan’s positive role at the OPCW,” the foreign office said. “It reaffirms the confidence of the Member States in Pakistan’s ability to provide effective leadership and impetus to the work of the OPCW.”
The foreign office said the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and stockpiling of Chemical Weapons and their Destruction (CWC) – with 193 states parties – was “the most successful disarmament treaty eliminating an entire class of weapons of mass destruction.”
The Executive Council is the principal policy-making organ of the OPCW, responsible for supervising the effective implementation of and compliance with the Convention. It also supports the scientific and economic development of its member states “in the peaceful uses of chemistry.”
Pakistan is an active member of the OPCW and has been serving on the executive council since its ratification of the CWC in 1997.
“Pakistan has been contributing constructively toward the fulfilment of the objectives of the CWC and regularly hosts OPCW routine inspections at its relevant facilities,” the foreign office added.