OPCW Director-General Sabrina Dallafior visits Damascus after the first verified destruction of Syria's chemical weapons
15 October 2026
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons announced on 13 October 2026 that its Director-General, Sabrina Dallafior, visited Syria.
In Damascus she met the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Asaad al-Shaibani.
The OPCW described the first verified destruction of chemical weapons in Syria, achieved in August 2026, as a milestone.
The organisation recalled the attacks at Khan Shaykoun in 2017 and Douma in 2018.
The Chemical Weapons Convention now binds 193 States and covers 98 per cent of the global population.
All chemical weapons stockpiles declared by possessor States have been verifiably destroyed.
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OPCW Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons — The Hague-based body that verifies compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention.