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In March this year, a new website for a group set up by two former diplomats and an Ivy League academic concerned about the activities of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) blinked into life. The Berlin Group 21 (BG21), read a “Statement of Concern” that graced the site’s landing page, had “deep concern” about an OPCW investigation into a chemical weapons attack on the Syrian town of Douma in 2018 that killed more than 40 civilians. Signatories included pr...

UNSC Watch: Big Powers Hold Up Torch of Multilateralism While Taking Jabs at Each Other There was a fundamental disagreement at the meeting between the US, China and Russia on what the post-World War II rules-based order meant. UN headquarters in New York. Photo: Reuters/Lucas Jackson World10/May/2021 New Delhi: With the entire world under the shadow of COVID-19, the global pandemic should have ideally led to a united response from world bodies. However, as the United Nations Security Councilâ...

Historic Decision Condemns Assads Use of Chemical Weapons May 10, 2021 share Print The United States and 45 co-sponsors at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Conference of State Parties succeeded in condemning the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria for its continued use and possession of chemical weapons. Embed share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:03:14 0:00 Pop-out player In an historic vote, the United States and 45 co-sponsors at the Organization for the...

UN: Assad Regime Hides Undeclared Chemical Warfare Agent Posted by Scott Lucas | May 8, 2021 | The UN’s head of disarmament, Izumi Nakamitsu (pictured), has reported the discovery of an undeclared chemical warfare agent at an Assad regime site in Syria. Nakamitsu told a Security Council meeting Thursday of the finding. She did not name the agent, which was detected in samples obtained by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. But the official explained that that the presen...

There are still discrepancies over the Syria chemical weapons declaration nearly eight years on. The United Nations Security Council has heard new evidence in longstanding international efforts to eradicate Syria’s chemical weapons programme, including the results of an investigation into the possible of use of chlorine gas in the city of Saraqib in 2018. Izuni Nakamitsu the United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, updated members on recent developments in the work of the ...

Addressing the ‘extant threat’ to peace and security posed by unresolved chemical weapons issues in Syria Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the Security Council briefing on Syria chemical weapons From: 6 May 2021 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) Thank you, Mr President. And may I start by thanking High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing today. I’d also like to thank the Director-General of the OPCW as always for his latest monthly report. The r...

Friday, 7 May 2021, 8:54 am The Security Council heard new evidence in longstanding international efforts to eradicate Syria’s chemical weapons programme on Thursday, including the results of an investigation into the possible of use of chlorine gas in the city of Saraqib in 2018, as the UN’s top disarmament official provided her regular briefing to ambassadors. Izumi Nakamitsu, the United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, updated members on recent developments in the w...

06 MAY 2021, NEW YORK CITY 2. Multiple screens, participants in virtual Security Council meeting 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations: “According to the OPCW Technical Secretariat, one of the chemicals detected in these samples is a neat chemical warfare agent, the production of which has not been declared by the Syrian Arab Republic. The presence of this chemical inside storage containers of large vol...

  Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) today released its monthly special report summarizing the human rights situation in Syria, outlining the most notable human rights violations documented by the SNHR in April 2021 at the hands of the parties to the conflict and the controlling forces in Syria, in which it notes that the Syrian Regime’s president, implicated in committing crimes against humanity, is running for the presidential elections, with this being the most prominent...

3 May 2021, 3:55 PM  |  Abbey Makoe  |  @SABCNews Image: Creative CommonsMore than half a million Syrians have died since the outbreak of the Western-backed war in 2011 to topple President Assad History teaches us that multilateral organisations are undoubtedly the glue that helps to maintain world peace. Without them, it is hard to fathom lasting harmonious regional and global relations. However, multil...