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1st LD: UN Security Council adopts resolution on Syria chemical weapons probe

Xinhua, August 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

UN Security Council on Friday adopted a resolution to set up a panel to identify the perpetrators of the deadly chlorine gas attacks in Syria.

In a unanimously adopted resolution, the 15-body council "reiterates that no party in Syria should use, develop, produce, acquire, stockpile, retain, or transfer chemical weapons."

According to the resolution, the council also "expresses its determination to identify those responsible for these acts and reiterates that those individuals, entities, groups, or governments responsible for any use of chemicals as weapons, including chlorine or any other toxic chemical, must be held accountable."

Within 20 days of adoption, the UN Secretary-General and the Director-General of the Organization For the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will submit to the Security Council recommendations for the establishment and operation of a UN-OPCW Joint Investigative Mechanism to identify the perpetrators.

The resolution is the most significant action by the council on the issue of the chemical weapons in Syria since President Bashar al-Assad's government joined the Chemical Weapons Convention in 2013. Endi