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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 9h

... the course. The SAMHS specialists were supported by some of their SA Navy (SAN) equivalents to ensure a high training standard was maintained across the course. [...]

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 9h

... Leone, Zambia and Zimbabwe sat down for classroom tuition backed by hands-on training at the Ditholo military training area north of Pretoria. In addition to instruction and “show me, don’t tell me” training, 7 Med Bn Gp instructors exchanged knowledge and strengthened partnerships during ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 9h

... only African country certified to present the course as part of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) continental capacity building programme. Specialist hazmat personnel from Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sierra ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 9h

... assistance and protection course for African states party to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), saw first responders equipped with the necessary skills to manage hazardous chemical incidents. South Africa, Major Melchizedek Mjoli of SAMHS Mobile Military Health Formation reported, is the ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 10h

... proliferation of chemical weapons and enabling the Technical Secretariat to continue its work effectively and sustainably. [...]

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 10h

... the organization’s bodies. He also urged States Parties to continue supporting the Syrian government and assisting it in fulfilling its obligations under the convention, contributing to preventing the re-emergence or ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 10h

... Syrian government, including a timetable, implementation stages and defined priorities, with the aim of achieving the complete and verifiable removal of the program’s remnants and bringing the file to a final close in accordance with the Chemical Weapons Convention and relevant decisions of ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 10h

... in removing remnants of the program by strengthening coordination, exchanging information and documents, and facilitating verification activities. Al-Qahtani called for building on this progress by developing a clear and practical roadmap between the Technical Secretariat and the ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 10h

#ChemicalWeapons #Disarmament #Syria #Qatar #OPCW UK, Qatar welcome Syria’s efforts to address deposed regime’s chemical weapons legacy sana.sy/en/syria/234... [...] He said the cooperation had paved the way for the Syrian government and the Technical Secretariat to make progress ...

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UK, Qatar welcome Syria’s efforts to address deposed regime’s chemical weapons legacy

The Hague, Oct. 8 (SANA) The United Kingdom and Qatar have welcomed Syria’s efforts and the progress made in addressing the legacy of the deposed regime’s

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 10h

... or indirectly. Individuals on the list are also subject to a travel ban to the EU. The sanctions framework is linked to the Chemical Weapons Convention — the international treaty banning the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and requiring their destruction. [...]

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 10h

... in total. Those listed are subject to an asset freeze, meaning any funds and economic resources held in the EU must be frozen, and it is prohibited to make funds or economic resources available to them directly ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 10h

... until 30 October 2031. They also renewed the validity of existing individual sanctions under the same framework for a further year, until 30 October 2027, the Council of the EU said in a release on Monday. The measures currently apply to 31 people and six organisations ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 10h

#ChemicalWeapons #Sanctions #EuropeanUnion EU extends sanctions targeting chemical weapons as critical framework set to 2031 www.brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs/2... EU foreign affairs ministers have extended the bloc’s sanctions framework targeting the proliferation and use of chemical weapons ...

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EU extends sanctions targeting chemical weapons as critical framework set to 2031

Chemical weapons use faces expanding EU sanctions — extended asset freezing, travel bans through 2027, linked to security and treaty obligations.

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 11h

... generations. I am determined to tell that story more widely and increase our Organisation’s visibility as the global chemical weapons watchdog. We must remember the victims of chemical weapons use in everything that we do and ensure, together, that those responsible are held to account. [...]

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 11h

... Our predecessors came together and agreed to eliminate an entire class of weapons of mass destruction. Chemical weapons destruction activities are taking place around the world, and our international cooperation and assistance programmes are building skills and capabilities for new ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 11h

... down the Working Capital Fund, and we may have to curtail core activities if the situation does not improve soon, including in relation to Syria deployments and other forms of technical assistance. That is the stark reality. Returning to my central message, the OPCW has a good story to tell. ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 11h

... financial contingency planning. Second, the financial shortfalls raise a large question mark over our ability to deliver all OPCW programmatic activities, whether funded by the regular budget or by trust funds. In short, these delays are starting to impact on delivery. We have fully drawn ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 11h

... year, and I urge those States Parties that have not yet done so to pay their contributions without further delay. Failure to pay assessed contributions in full and on time impacts OPCW operations in two fundamental ways. First, OPCW personnel are diverted from core activities to focus on ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 11h

... later or only partial payments of assessed contributions. To put it plainly, it is now October and we are more than 75% of the way through the year, but we have received less than 65% of assessed contributions for 2026. I appreciate that many States Parties pay promptly at the start of the ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 11h

#ChemicalWeapons #OPCW #Statement #USA #Budget #Russia #Use Opening Statement by the Director-General to the 113th Session of the Executive Council www.opcw.org/media-centre... [...] In terms of executing the 2026 budget, the Secretariat is facing a particular challenge in relation to much ...

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Opening Statement by the Director-General to the 113th Session of the Executive Council

Delivered by Sabrina Dallafior

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12h

... should be tested on a hypothetical viral genome every year, with the clock running and the results published. This is how we test many other major defensive systems the U.S. government maintains. [...]

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12h

... responsibility. Such a program has to be able to support many different types of biotechnology platforms and approaches used to develop countermeasures. Manufacturing capacity has to be continuously maintained rather than contracted for in a crisis. And the proposed countermeasure ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12h

... was an improvisation, assembled in an emergency. It worked, and the country then went back to treating countermeasure development as something the pharmaceutical industry does when there is a market for it. There is no market for a pathogen that does not exist yet. This must be a government ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12h

#BiologicalWeapons #ArtificialIntelligence #SyntheticBiology #Vaccines #BigPharma We Aren’t Ready for the New Age of Biological Threats www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o... [...] What will be hard is maintaining a countermeasure system when there is no immediate need for it. Operation Warp Speed ...

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Opinion | We Need an Operation Warp Speed for New Biological Threats

This is a hair-on-fire moment for the biosecurity community.

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 22h

... “We must remember the victims of chemical weapons use in everything that we do and ensure, together, that those responsible are held to account”. [...]

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 22h

... control agent, in samples collected along the confrontation lines, and that the Secretariat is providing expert support to Ukraine's national investigation at Ukraine's request. Concluding her statement, she said: ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 22h

... said, but by what follows a violation proven against Russia. The same logic runs through the new Director-General's first statement to the Executive Council. Ambassador Sabrina Dallafior confirmed that laboratories designated by the Organisation had found CS, a riot ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 22h

... underlined that there can be no selective implementation of the Convention, and no tolerance for the gradual normalisation of toxic chemicals as a method of warfare. The credibility of the Chemical Weapons Convention is being tested today in Ukraine, and it will be measured not by what is ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 22h

... contributions make such assistance possible. Russia's systematic violations of the UN Charter and of the Convention have already had consequences for its standing within the Organisation: for the third consecutive year it has failed to secure election to the Executive Council. The Ambassador ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 22h

... Director-General and the Technical Secretariat for the assistance provided under Article X of the Convention, which has measurably strengthened our national capacities in wartime, and for the expert support to the national investigation, as well as to the States Parties whose voluntary ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 23h

... the environment. He also reaffirmed Seychelles' continued commitment to the objectives of the Chemical Weapons Convention and to international efforts aimed at ensuring that toxic chemicals are never used as weapons. [...]

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 23h

... towards strengthening the country's legal framework and meeting its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). The Principal Secretary stressed that effective chemical safety and security are a shared responsibility and are essential for protecting communities, workplaces and ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 23h

... Affairs and the Diaspora, Ambassador Ian Madeleine, announced that Seychelles is close to finalising its draft Chemical Weapons (Prohibition) Bill, 2026. Madeleine, who also represents the National Authority of Seychelles for the OPCW, described the proposed legislation as an important step ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 23h

#ChemicalWeapons #ChemicalWeaponsConvention #Seychelles #Implementation #Legislation #OPCW Seychelles moves closer to dedicated chemical weapons law as it hosts regional OPCW seminar www.seychellesnewsagency.com/articles/225... [...] Speaking at the opening, the Principal Secretary for Foreign ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 23h

... a ceasefire monitored by an independent international body and an end to foreign weapons, funding and diplomatic backing for the warring parties. [...]

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 23h

... any chemical weapons production sites and the whereabouts of munitions, and to let the OPCW verify and destroy them. The resolution also condemned "massive war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the two parties to the conflict". It called for ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 23h

... African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights to demand that Sudan allow the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to send technical teams. The commission began a session in Dakar on Monday. The NGO forum called for Sudan to declare ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 23h

#ChemicalWeapons #Sudan #CivilSociety #Investigation #OPCW African NGO forum urges Sudan to open sites to chemical weapons inspectors www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20... [...] In a resolution adopted at the end of a three-day forum in Senegal's capital, Dakar, on Saturday, NGOs urged the ...

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African NGO forum urges Sudan to open sites to chemical weapons inspectors | The National

Rights groups call on African Commission to pressure Sudanese Armed Forces over allegations

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

... statement to the Council, OPCW Director-General Sabrina Dallafior said the Technical Secretariat continued to monitor reports of chemical weapons use in Sudan. She encouraged member states to share relevant information with the organisation. [...]

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

... from 6 to 9 October 2026. The United States, Germany, Belgium, Australia, Finland, the United Kingdom and the European Union addressed the allegations, although their statements did not constitute an independent determination by the OPCW that chemical weapons had been used. In her opening ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

... chemical weapons during the country’s civil war, with several governments calling for greater transparency and cooperation with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The issue was raised during the 113th session of the OPCW Executive Council, held in The Hague ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

... the White House—to do so. By the standards Nebenzya has set for Ukraine and the U.S., Russia is failing its own test on biological security. [...]

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

... plague infection or a laboratory accident in the first place, but has yet to reveal its findings to the world despite widespread calls—including from the World Health Organization and ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

... Ukrainian activities. An unexplained death at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute has attracted international attention to a facility with dangerous pathogen collections, a Soviet biological-defense history, and links to Russian military researchers. Moscow denies there was ever a ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

... dangerous military-biological research involving pathogens including plague, anthrax, tularemia and cholera. It demanded exhaustive explanations, invoked the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), and even attempted to establish a Security Council commission to investigate American and ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

... operating in Ukraine with Pentagon support were engaged in peaceful scientific research, "why do you not agree to put it under international control?" he asked. Before Nebenzya took to the microphone, Moscow had alleged that at least 30 Ukrainian labs funded by Washington were conducting ...

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ban-cbw.bsky.social @ban-cbw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#BiologicalWeapons #Plague #Russia #Laboratories #Ukraine #Disinformation Russia’s Biolab Accusations Have Come Home www.newsweek.com/russia-biola... In May 2022, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, had a tricky question for Washington and Kyiv. If biological laboratories...

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Russia’s biolab accusations have come home

Moscow has spent years knocking on the doors of biological laboratories in Ukraine. It should start by opening its own.

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