On 13 July, Executive Secretary Emeritus of the CTBTO and former Hungarian Ambassador Tibor Tóth presented himself as a candidate for Director-General of the Organization for the prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), located in The Hague.
Ambassador Tóth held his presentation during the most recent meeting of the OPCW’s Executive Council. In the presentation of his vision, Tóth highlighted his three-decade long experience as a tested and trusted leader in the international field and that he would deliver excellent leadership to the organization on the basis of rule-based fairness, integrity, and transparency.
The Executive Council will decide upon the post in October of 2017, after which all states who are a member of the OPCW will elect the person during the Conference of States Parties of the OPCW in November 2017.
