![OPCW Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü (center) and the winners of a student competition on the theme of achieving a world free of chemical weapons. Photo Credit: Steffen Füssel](/sites/default/files/styles/news_featured_image/public/images/news/2016/02/web_schwettb-2016_frauenkirche-dresden_tn-gesamt_foto-steffen-fuessel.jpg?itok=zBU4aDOn)
OPCW Director-General Visits Dresden
1 February 2016![The Minister of State of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, The Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns, DBE, left, and OPCW Director-General, Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_featured_image/public/images/news/2016/01/uk_minister_of_state.jpg?itok=mkF6qj7n)
United Kingdom’s Minister of State visits the OPCW
28 January 2016![Participants at the Workshop on the Peaceful Development and Use of Chemistry for Member States of the OPCW in the Asian Region, which was held in Seoul, in the Republic of Korea.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_featured_image/public/images/news/2015/10/seoul.jpg?itok=e0H12M8v)
Workshop on the Peaceful Development and Use of Chemistry for Member States of the OPCW in the Asian Region held in Seoul
22 October 2015![Participants at the The Advanced and Exercise training course on Assistance and Protection against Chemical Weapons for Arabic speaking States Parties, which was held in Doha, Qatar from 21 to 24 December 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_featured_image/public/images/news/2015/12/qatar_2015.fw_.png?itok=7bBmqJSw)
Advanced and Exercise training course on Assistance and Protection against Chemical Weapons held in Qatar
24 December 2015Destruction of declared Syrian chemical weapons completed
4 January 2016![Director-General Mr Ahmet Üzümcü (left) with Mr Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_featured_image/public/images/news/2015/12/dg_paris.jpg?itok=g11-5-aa)
Director-General Visits France, Receives Légion d’Honneur
15 December 2015![OPCW Director-General Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü with the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway, H.E. Mrs Erna Solberg](/sites/default/files/styles/news_featured_image/public/images/news/2015/12/norway_pm.jpg?itok=NDS7OBVS)