Invitation til fællesmøde med OPCW's Generaldirektør, Ahmet Üzumcü den 26. juni 2014

Biography
OPCW Director-General H.E. Mr Ahmet Üzümcü
H.E. Mr Ahmet Üzümcü was appointed Director-General of the OPCW in December 2009 by the
14th Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention and
began his first term of office on 25 July 2010. He was reappointed for a second term at the 18th
Session of the Conference of State Parties in December 2013. Immediately prior to his appointment
as OPCW Director-General, he served as the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Turkey
to the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Ambassador Üzümcü is a career diplomat with vast experience in multilateral diplomacy. During
the past decade he has represented Turkey at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Council, the Conference on Disarmament, the United Nations and other international organisations
in Geneva. Ambassador Üzümcü chaired the Conference on Disarmament for four weeks in March
2008 and attended various disarmament-related meetings and conferences in Geneva, Brussels and
elsewhere. He has a thorough understanding of and considerable expertise in political-military
affairs, disarmament and proliferation issues.
Previously, Ambassador Üzümcü served as Deputy Undersecretary of State for Bilateral Political
Affairs at the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From June 2002 to August 2004, he was the
Permanent Representative of Turkey to the NATO Council in Brussels. He held the post of
Ambassador of Turkey to Israel from 1999 to 2002. From 1996 to 1999, he headed the Personnel
Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ankara. Prior to that, he served in various posts at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as at the Turkish delegation to NATO (1986-1989), the
Turkish Embassy in Vienna (1979-1982) and as a Consul in Aleppo, Syria (1982-1984).
In addition to his diplomatic experience, Ambassador Üzümcü served in an international capacity as
a staff member of NATO’s Political Directorate from 1989 to 1994, where he contributed to work
on NATO’s Partnership for Peace initiative in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War and
travelled extensively in Eastern European countries and the former USSR.
Ambassador Üzümcü was born in Armutlu, Turkey on 30 August 1951 and holds a Bachelors
Degree in International Relations with a specialisation in Public Administration from the Faculty of
Political Sciences, Ankara University. He speaks English and French fluently, is married and has a
daughter.
Ambassador Üzümcü received the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the OPCW in December
2013. In January 2014, he was awarded the Medaglia d’Onore and the Sigillum Magnum by the
University of Bologna in Italy.
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Invitation til fællesmøde med OPCW’s Generaldirektør
Generaldirektøren for OPCW, Ahmet Üzümcü gæster København den 25.-26.
juni 2014, da han er inviteret af ministeren for forskning, innovation og videre-
gående uddannelser til at være key-note taler på konferencen Euroscience
Open Forum. I forbindelse med besøget har han ønsket at mødes med rele-
vante politikere, derfor er der arrangeret et fællesmøde.
Fællesmødet finder sted:
Torsdag den 26. juni 2014 kl. 15.15-16.15 i værelse 1-117
Formålet med mødet vil være at drøfte Danmarks rolle i forbindelse med fjer-
nelsen af de kemiske våben fra Syrien og perspektiverne for Global 0 for ke-
miske våben.
CV for Ahmet Üzümcü er vedlagt
Tilmelding bedes ske til undertegnede på telefon 3624 eller pr. mail
charlotte.faber@ft.dk senest onsdag den 4. juni 2014.
Med venlig hilsen
Charlotte Faber
Nævnsassistent
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