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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 report raises issues of serious concern. First, we note the discovery by the Declaration Assessment T...

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 work of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in Syria. Those efforts were ...

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 volume at a previously declared chemical weapons facility may imply undeclared production activities.�...

  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 reason for its illegitimacy.   The 30-page report outlines the most notable violations SNHR docume...

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, multilateral organisations risk losing their credibility when powerful cliques from within hijack their mi...