The Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) held its Nineteenth Meeting on 16 July 2002 in The Hague. H.E. Ambassador Lionel Fernando, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the OPCW, chaired the meeting.
During this meeting, the Executive Council decided, by acclamation, to recommend to the Conference of the States Parties, that H.E. Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter from Argentina be appointed the Director-General of the Technical Secretariat of the OPCW for a term of four years. Ambassador Pfirter, a lawyer and a career diplomat, is at present the Under-Secretary for Foreign Policy in the Ministry of External Relations, International Trade and Worship, Argentina.
The First Special Session of the Conference of the States Parties will reconvene on 25 July 2002 to consider and to take a decision on the recommendation of the Executive Council to appoint Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter as the Director-General of the Technical Secretariat of the OPCW.
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