国内英语新闻:Uzumcu: China is an important state partner to OPCW

THE HAGUE, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- "China fully abide by the chemical weapons conventions and is the important state partner," the new Director General of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ahmet Uzumcu said here on Monday.

At the opening ceremony of the photo exhibition about"chemical weapons abandoned by Japan in China"during the 15th session of the Conference of OPCW, Uzumcu told Xinhua, "We are fully aware of the safety risks that these weapons posed to the Chinese people, who are living in the immediate neighborhood of the weapons. Thus we wish the early destruction of the weapons."

"As the director general, I am particularly pleased to see the breakthrough of the process and to see the destruction has started on 12th October," Uzumcu said.

Uzumcu just finished a visit to China."I was impressed by China's developments in chemical industries." He commended China' s excellent performance of implementing the chemical weapon Convention and the outstanding results followed by.

The exhibition with dozens of photos, which is a comprehensive and systematic presentation of the history and the current status of this issue, attracted many visitors.

"It's very informative and things exhibited here are relatively new to the organization. I have heard a lot about this issue. But this exhibition has made things more come to life. It illustrated the challenges a lot more concretely,"a US representative said.

"It's a very large number of chemical weapons considered to be abandoned in China. I hope all of them are located, identified, and subsequently they are put in storage, and therefore they be destructed,"a representative from Pakistan said.