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2022-10-25

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2022-10-25

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1. “We look forward to the completion of the ongoing investigations, especially the next report of the Investigation and Identification Team on the Douma attack of 2018. Let me reiterate the fact that the use of chemical weapons by anyone, anywhere and in any circumstances is a grave violation of international law. It is our collective responsibility to ensure accountability for the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Genuine political reconciliation there will be possible only through justice and accountability. It is high time that the members of the Council left their political differences behind and took steps to enforce the Council’s own resolutions, and specifically resolution 2118 (2013). Ending impunity is imperative, including to honour the hundreds of innocent lives lost due to chemical-weapon attacks during the conflict in Syria.”

   2022-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9164 (2022) · source

2. “Furthermore, the OPCW Technical Secretariat is still waiting for responses to its inquiries sent to the Syrian regime in October 2020 and July 2021, regarding its chemical-weapon production facilities and chlorine cylinders used in the attack that took place in Douma in 2018. We call on the Syrian regime to fully cooperate with the OPCW Technical Secretariat and provide the necessary information, as it is obliged to do under the Chemical Weapons Convention. The investigation by the Fact-Finding Mission and the Investigation and Identification Team are important to establishing the truth about the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Independent scientific investigations have established that the Al-Assad regime is responsible for resorting to the use of chemical weapons against its own population on multiple occasions.”

   2022-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9164 (2022) · source

3. “We thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing. We commend the independence, professionalism and impartiality of the Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and appreciate the efforts of the Director-General of the OPCW to establish a direct line of contact to resolve outstanding issues. As reported yet again by the OPCW, the gaps, discrepancies and inconsistencies in the chemical-weapon declaration of the Al-Assad regime continue, and the OPCW still cannot consider that declaration to be accurate and complete. The regime is obstructing the work of the Investigation and Identification Team by refusing to issue visas.”

   2022-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9164 (2022) · source