Ambassador Fernando Arias is Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). His second four-year term began on 25 July 2022.

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Experts at work in the OPCW Laboratory, located in Rijswijk, The Netherlands. The Laboratory will move to the OPCW Centre for Chemistry and Technology in The Hague when it opens in 2023. 31 October 2016. OPCW
OPCW Director-General Fernando Arias addressing the Chemical Weapons Convention @ 25 seminar at OPCW headquarters, The Hague, 20 May 2022. OPCW
OPCW specialists train to maintain readiness to respond if and when chemical weapons are used. 6 April 2022. OPCW
Headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), located in The Hague, The Netherlands. 30 April 2015. OPCW
Fernando Arias

The process of destroying chemical arsenals declared to OPCW will soon be completed. However, current global events have underscored that preventing the re-emergence of chemical weapons is on an agenda that will remain open forever.

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