The Conference of the States Parties announced on Wednesday that it would host an event to celebrate the inaugural International Day for the Foundation of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), or “OPCW Day,” from May 2-4 at OPCW headquarters.
Deliberations over when to hold the day were held at the organization’s 20th sessions in 2015. The organization decided to designate April 29 to mark the date of the United States’ entry into the Chemical Weapons Convention.
The event, which will be themed “Chemical Safety and Security in a Technologically Evolving World,” will emphasize the discussion of three different topics – chemical safety and security, technology foresight, and future scenarios.
The conference said that OPCW Day will be a part of a series of conferences events aimed at commemorating the OPCW’s foundation in the next few years.
“As we celebrate the foundation of the OPCW, we create a vision for its future in a technologically evolving world. Most importantly, the event will help us build new and better partnerships and to harness the power of innovation to meet new and emerging challenges,” OPCW Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü said.