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OPCW Will Deploy Fact-Finding Mission to #Douma, Syria
Tuesday, 10 April 2018

▻https://www.opcw.org/news/article/opcw-will-deploy-fact-finding-mission-to-douma-syria

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — 10 April 2018 — Since the first reports of alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma, Syrian Arab Republic, were issued, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has been gathering information from all available sources and analysing it. At the same time, OPCW’s Director-General, Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, has considered the deployment of a Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) team to Douma to establish facts surrounding these allegations.

Today, the OPCW Technical Secretariat has requested the Syrian Arab Republic to make the necessary arrangements for such a deployment. This has coincided with a request from the Syrian Arab Republic and the Russian Federation to investigate the allegations of chemical weapons use in Douma. The team is preparing to deploy to Syria shortly.

Background

Set up in 2014, the on-going mandate of the OPCW Fact Finding Mission (FFM) is “to establish facts surrounding allegations of the use of toxic chemicals, reportedly chlorine, for hostile purposes in the Syrian Arab Republic”. The OPCW cannot and will not release information about an on-going investigation. This policy exists to preserve the integrity of the investigatory process and its results as well as to ensure the safety and security of OPCW experts and personnel involved. All parties are asked to respect the confidentiality parameters required for a rigorous and unimpeded investigation.

As the implementing body for the Chemical Weapons Convention, the OPCW oversees the global endeavour to permanently and verifiably eliminate chemical weapons. Since the Convention’s entry into force in 1997 – and with its 192 States Parties – it is the most successful disarmament treaty eliminating an entire class of weapons of mass destruction.

Over ninety-six per cent of all chemical weapon stockpiles declared by possessor States have been destroyed under OPCW verification. For its extensive efforts in eliminating chemical weapons, the OPCW received the 2013 Nobel Prize for Peace.

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Et l’auteur de ces crimes abominable peut se balader tranquillement à Paris, se placer en tête d’une manifestation contre la violence aveugle et, prétendant représenter « les juifs », pérorer publiquement en étalant une autosatisfaction obscène ...
Comment respecter ces institutions, Président français, Ministres français, qui en permettant cela et en coopérant étroitement avec Israël, ont rendu la France complice de ces atrocités.

Le communiqué (intégral) de l’OIAC (le rapport n’est pas public).

8% of Syrian Chemicals Still Remain to be Removed ; Fact-Finding Mission in Syria ; Some Progress on Syrian Production Facilities
▻http://www.opcw.org/index.php?id=242&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1915&cHash=a6747b8a4151705ee53f6952c17

The Director-General Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü updated the OPCW Executive Council on developments related to the mission to eliminate Syrian chemical weapons. The OPCW-UN Joint Mission Special Coordinator, Ms Sigrid Kaag, also briefed delegates on progress in the work of the Joint Mission.

The Director-General noted that ongoing delays in transporting the remaining 8% of chemicals mean that Syria will miss the target date of 30 June for the complete destruction of its chemical weapons programme. He called on Syrian authorities to redouble their efforts to complete the transportation of the remaining chemicals without further delay.

Referring to progress in technical talks on the destruction of 12 chemical weapons production facilities (CWPF), the Director-General noted that Syria has agreed to the methodology for destroying hangars that were used as CWPFs. However, further work is needed regarding the underground structures.
 
The Director-General noted that despite the grave incident which prevented the fact-finding mission (FFM) from conducting an important field visit, the team was able to prepare a preliminary report. The information that was available to the FFM lends credence to the view that toxic chemicals – most likely pulmonary irritating agents, such as chlorine – have been used in Syria. The FFM will continue its important work in gathering facts and bringing them to light.

“I commend the commitment and dedication of the team of OPCW and UN officials who courageously pressed on with the task that was assigned to them, despite the well-known risks,” said Ambassador Üzümcü.

Le Monde, encore plus insidieux, estime inutile de préciser qui a attaqué les inspecteurs de l’OIAC…

L’OIAC confirme l’utilisation d’armes chimiques en Syrie
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2014/06/18/des-armes-chimiques-ont-ete-utilisee-en-syrie-selon-l-oiac_4440370_3218.html

Des armes chimiques comme le chlore ont été utilisées de « manière systématique » en Syrie, selon un rapport préliminaire de l’Organisation pour l’interdiction des armes chimiques (OIAC). Bien que le rapport n’ait pas été rendu public, le représentant des Etats-Unis devant l’OIAC à La Haye en a cité plusieurs passages au cours d’une réunion.

Les inspecteurs d’une mission exploratoire de l’OIAC et des Nations unies ont été la cible d’une attaque en mai, alors qu’ils se trouvaient dans la province de Hama, dans le centre de la Syrie, et ils ont été contraints d’écourter leur séjour.

De mieux en mieux : sur la une de lemonde.fr, le titre n’hésite pas à attribuer (ce que ne fait pas l’article)

Le régime syrien utilise de façon « systématique » les armes chimiques

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