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1st LD: UN Security Council OKs resolution condemning chlorine bombs use in Syria

Xinhua, March 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

The UN Security Council on Friday approved a resolution condemning the use of chlorine as a weapon in Syria.

The resolution, which was adopted by 14 of the 15 Council members with Venezuela abstaining in the vote, "condemns in the strongest terms any use of any toxic chemical, such as chlorine, as a weapon in the Syrian Arab Republic."

The Council members expressed deep concern that toxic chemicals have been used as a weapon in Syria as concluded "with a high degree of confidence" by the fact-finding mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

The Council also called on all parties in Syria to extend their full cooperation to the fact-finding mission (FFM), which was mandated to establish the facts surrounding allegations of the use of toxic chemicals for hostile purposes in Syria.

Reiterating that no party in Syria should use, develop, produce, acquire, stockpile, retain, or transfer chemical weapons, the 15- nation body stressed that those individuals responsible for any use of chemicals as weapons, including chlorine or any other toxic chemical, "must be held accountable." Endite