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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

01.12.2023 Article

Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Germany took part as an observer in the second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons held in New York from 27 November to 1 December.

Second Meeting of States Parties to Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

24.11.2023 Article

The 21st Meeting of the States Parties to the Ottawa Convention – towards a world without anti-personnel mines

Anti-personnel mines are cruel weapons. During its Presidency of the Ottawa Convention, Germany has been working towards a mine-free world. Read on to find out more about our work and to hear what Minister of State Keul said at the Meeting of the States Parties in Geneva earlier this week.

18.07.2023 Article

Breakthrough in international arms control: New Global Framework on ammunition

Illegal ammunition fuels conflict, terrorism, organised crime and extremism. Every year explosions at ammunition depots claim countless lives. A German initiative has now led to a breakthrough in international arms control.

11.07.2023 Article

Milestone along the way to disarmament: Last officially declared chemical weapons have been destroyed

Chemical weapons are among the most abhorrent weapons known to humankind. The United States, as the last country possessing such weapons, has just declared that it has fully destroyed its remaining stockpiles.

Destruction of chemical weapons at the „Blue Grass Army Depot“ in Kentucky, USA

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2023 Annual Disarmament Report

Strengthening the Chemical Weapons Convention by updating Germany’s legislation

Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

The 21st Meeting of the States Parties to the Ottawa Convention – towards a world without anti-personnel mines

Breakthrough in international arms control: New Global Framework on ammunition

Milestone along the way to disarmament: Last officially declared chemical weapons have been destroyed

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Statement by the Federal Foreign Office on reports of the testing of several short-range ballistic missiles by North Korea

Federal Foreign Office on reports of the testing of a medium-range ballistic missile by North Korea

Federal Foreign Office comments on the reported North Korean missile test

Federal Foreign Office on the publication of the OPCW IIT report on the use of chemical weapons in Marea, Syria, in September 2015

Statement by France, Germany and the United Kingdom: Iran space launch using technology essential for development of long-range ballistic missiles

Federal Foreign Office comments on the reported North Korean missile test

Joint Statement on DPRK-Russia Ballistic Missile Transfers

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