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1st LD: UN Security Council concerned about use of chemical weapons in Syria

Xinhua, February 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

The UN Security Council on Monday voiced its concern about the use of chemical weapons by warring parties in Syria, including terrorists.

Ambassador Rafael Ramirez Carreno of Venezuela, who holds the rotating council presidency for February, made the remarks to the press here after the 15-nation UN body reviewed the first report by an investigative mechanism to identify the perpetrators of chemical attacks in Syria, known as the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM).

The council members "express the concern for the use of chemical weapons by any of the parties involved in the conflict, including the terrorist group," he said.

The OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism was approved by the Security Council in September 2015, some 20 days after the council adopted a resolution in last August, to identify the perpetrators of the deadly chlorine gas attacks in Syria. Enditem