Russia lost to Ukraine in the race for a seat on the decision-making body of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). For the first time there is no Russian representative in the important body.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the result. “The OPCW is a highly respected international organization, there is no place for terrorists,” he wrote on the online service X, formerly Twitter. Russia’s exclusion from the OPCW Executive Council is a “logical consequence” of Russia’s aggression against its country. Moscow’s role in “international affairs is shrinking and its isolation is increasing,” Zelensky said.
Nobel Peace Prize in 2013
Russia, together with its war enemies Poland and Lithuania, had sought three places on the Executive Council. The OPCW, based in The Hague, oversees the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which came into force in 1997. In 2013, she received the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to rid the planet of chemical weapons.
“Milestone” in 2023
The organization played a key role in the Syrian civil war when Damascus agreed to dismantle its arsenal of chemical weapons. In July, the OPCW announced the ‘milestone’ that all chemical weapons declared worldwide had been ‘irreversibly destroyed’. The US had previously announced that it had destroyed its last stockpiles of chemical weapons.
Source: Krone
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