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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 prominent journalists, academics, a former US Congresswoman and presidential candidate as well as a fo...

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 Council’s high-level debate showed last week, everybody scrambled to support the concept of multilateral...

Historic Decision Condemns Assad's 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 Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, or OPCW, Conference of State Parties succeeded in condemning 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 presence “inside storage containers of large volume at a previously declared chemical weapons facility m...

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 Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in Syria. Those efforts were first mand...