In a speech by deputy chairman of the Kuwaiti national committee tasked with following contacts with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Muhammad Buzubar, addressing an OPCW conference here, said that though meetings of the kind being held here today and since OPCW’s first conference in 2003, more progress ought to be sought to bring aboard additional cosignees to OPCW. There are 12 states that have not as of yet endorsed the OPCW ban on chemical weapons, he said.
Kuwait, he underlined, is keen to boost its contributions to the efforts of OPCW through Kuwait’s membership in the organization’s executive board for the period extending up until 2010.
Buzubar congratulated the Saudi Ambassador to Holland Waleed al-Kharaiji on being elected president of the second extraordinary meeting of OPCW taking place here since last Monday. Buzubar ended his speech by hoping that conferences like today’s could produce concrete results of benefit to mankind’s peace and security.
Kuwait’s delegation to the meetings is headed by Kuwait’s Ambassador to the Netherlands Youssif Al-Enaizi and groups Brigadier Barak Abdulmohsin Al-Barjas, Jinan Bu-Shehri of the Ministry of Defense, Counselor Hamad Rashid Al-Merri of the Foreign Ministry, Advisor at Kuwait’s embassy in the Hague Talal Al-Hajri and Faisal Al-Ameeri from Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC).
The headquarters of the Hague-based OPCW opened in 1997. As many as 183 countries, including 11 Arab ones (among them all GCC states), have joined OPCW since April 1997.
