Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes
The OPCW-UN Joint Mission confirms that the government of the Syrian Arab Republic has completed the functional destruction of critical equipment for all of its declared chemical weapons production facilities and mixing/filling plants, rendering them inoperable.
Left-Right: Nene Bah, Senior Gender Advisor, Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region; Hon. Janviere Ndirahisha, Regional Director for the ICGLR regional training facility in Uganda; Amb. João Samuel Caholo, Executive Secretary of the ICGLR; and Faridah Kibowa, Chair of Uganda National Women Council. Kampala, Uganda, 27 Nov. 2023 (Photo: Fiona Irakoze, ICGLR).
Left to right: Bruno Lemarquis, (left) Deputy Special Representative to the UN Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), Yacoub El Hillo, (2nd left), Regional Director for the Development Coordination Office for Africa, Susan Ngongi Namondo, UN Resident Coordinator in Uganda, Bagiire Vincent Waiswa, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uganda, Huang Xia, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region (2nd right), and Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, (right), Special Representative of Secretary-General to the AU and Head of the UN Office to the AU (UNOAU), during the second SPG Retreat held in Kampala, Uganda. Photo (William Sila, Office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region).
High profile participants at the retreat on the revitalization of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the region. Durban, South Africa, 31 October 2023 (Photo: Penangnini Toure)
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