As part of the syllabus of the 12-week course offered this year by the Foreign Service Academy of Pakistan to 41 diplomats representing 24 countries in Africa and Asia, a full day session devoted to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) concluded satisfactorily on 2 November 2006.
In his opening address at the session, Ambassador Musa Javed Chohan, Director General of the Pakistan Foreign Service Academy, said that: “the teaching of the Chemical Weapons Convention is an integral part of the courses of the Academy.” He also expressed the hope that the session would “sensitize the participants to the importance of the Chemical Weapons Convention”. Mr Mohsin Razi, the Director General of the Pakistani National Authority, underlined that this full-day session was a part of Pakistan’s contribution to the attainment of the goals established by the Plan of Action regarding the implementation of Article VII obligations adopted by the Tenth Session of the Conference of the States Parties.
Diplomats from Afghanistan, Brunei, Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Ghana, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Maldives, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Senegal, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen and Zambia participated actively in the programme, which covered, inter alia, the verification provisions of the Convention and its implementation.
The Foreign Service Academy of Pakistan was established in 1981 and has trained 758 diplomats from 75 countries.
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