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Pakistan: OPCW Inspectors to Visit Industrial Plant Inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which oversees the Chemical Weapons Convention, will conduct their first visit of a Pakistani industrial site as part of inspections set to begin there by the end of the month, officials said (see GSN, April 23). OPCW inspectors will visit the Fauji Jordan Fertilizer plant, Pakistan’s largest such facility, in Karachi on April 29, a senior Pakistani official said. “They are more than welcome to inspect the Fauji Jordan Fertilizer site,” the official said. “Pakistan does not have any chemical weapons,” the official added. In addition to military sites, industrial sites that produce certain CWC-listed chemicals known as “scheduled chemicals,” which have a wide range of civilian uses, are also subject to “routine” inspections, the OPCW said. “As a matter of routine and probability, the longer the convention is in operation, the higher the probability is that facilities that have been declared as producing ‘scheduled’ chemicals will be inspected,” organization spokesman Peter Kaisar said (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, April 23). For further information, see:
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