Third session on familiarization with the OPCW

The third edition of the familiarization with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was held at the Tehran Peace Museum on Monday, 26 May 2025.

At first, Mr. Shahriar Khatri, former senior officer of the OPCW talked about the history, structure and the work of the organization Then, Mr. Nabi Azadi, representative of the National Authority for the Chemical Weapons Convention from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, gave a speech on how the convention is implemented in Iran, as well as the structure, actions and performance of the National Authority in recent years. Then, in a live video connection with the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Ms. Elizabeth Wachter, Head of Public Affairs and Spokesperson of the organization, gave a speech on the role of NGOs and academics in advancing the organization’s goals and the organization’s engagement with civil society in recent years, and then a question and answer session was held with her presence and one of the young interns of this department.

Given that the audience of this series of meetings is the younger generation, the organization's job and internship opportunities were also reviewed, and Ms. Mohaddeseh Jahangiri spoke about her one-year internship experience then Ms. Sahar Tafreshi, as the representative of the Tehran Peace Museum at the two recent OPCW annual conferences in The Hague, also spoke about her experience in organizing a side event and presenting a statement at the conference, accompanied by the wife of a chemical weapons veteran. Short videos related to the topics were shown during the program breaks.

At the end, participants were awarded a bilingual certificate of attendance.

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