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26.03.2025 Article

Destruction of chemical weapons: the OPCW Executive Council visits Germany

Germany has many years of experience in the destruction of chemical weapons. Read on to find out what “the world’s most toxic hole” has to do with chemical weapons in Syria.

Grenades from Dethlingen pond are loaded into the incinerator.
20.11.2024 Article

Humanitarian mine action

Landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) claim many victims around the world and endanger millions – especially children. Germany is actively working to protect people both in practice and in international law, and supports projects in the field of humanitarian mine and ordnance clearance.

Humanitarian mine clearance on a mountain path in Parwan Province, Afghanistan
12.08.2024 Article

30th anniversary of Germany’s accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention: continuing to work for a world free of chemical weapons

30 years after Germany’s accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), significant progress has been made toward implementing the global ban on chemical weapons. A significant milestone was completion, in 2023, of the destruction of all officially declared chemical weapons stocks.

Staff members of GEKA (a publicly owned company specialised in the disposal of chemical warfare agents and hazardous military waste) wearing hazmat suits during a media event in Münster
28.06.2024 Article

Rethinking Arms Control: Artificial Intelligence and Weapons of Mass Destruction

The consequences of the use of artificial intelligence in the field of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons are on the agenda in Berlin on 28 June 2024 at the third conference in the series Capturing Technology. Rethinking Arms Control.

The rapid advances in the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly becoming relevant for our foreign and security policy, too.
17.04.2024 Article

2023 Annual Disarmament Report

The German Government continued to promote arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation under difficult conditions in 2023. An overview of the priorities and challenges that this involves can be found here.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at the Geneva Conference on Disarmament, 27 February 2023
19.03.2024 Article

Strengthening the Chemical Weapons Convention by updating Germany’s legislation

The Chemical Weapons Convention is one of the most successful multilateral disarmament treaties for the worldwide prohibition of chemical weapons. Germany’s legislation regarding the CWC has recently been revised.

Industry inspections carried out by the OPCW

Press releases

  1. 30.06.2025 Press release

    Statements of the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom regarding threats against the Director General of the IAEA

  2. 31.10.2024 Press release

    Statement by the Federal Foreign Office on the reported testing of an intercontinental ballistic missile by North Korea on 31 October 2024

  3. 14.09.2024 Press release

    G7 Foreign Ministers’ Statement on Iranian transfers of Ballistic Missiles to Russia

  4. 28.06.2024 Press release

    Statement by the Federal Foreign Office on the reported failed test of a ballistic missile by North Korea

  5. 05.06.2024 Press release

    Joint Statement by the spokespeople for the Foreign Ministries of France, Germany and the United Kingdom concerning the resolution on Iran adopted by the IAEA Board of Governors

  6. 31.05.2024 Press release

    Joint statement on the transfer of arms from the DPRK to Russia and the coordination of sanctions

  7. 31.05.2024 Press release

    Statement by the Federal Foreign Office on reports of the latest series of ballistic missile tests by North Korea

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