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Press release: UK condemns Assad pertaining to using chemical weapons within Douma in 2018

Minister for the Middle East, Master (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, responded to the report: This is the third record by the OPCW’s Investigation plus Identification Team (IIT) in to chemical weapons attacks in Syria. Following a lengthy and meticulous investigation and in spite of Syria’s attempts to obstruct investigation, the OPCW statement has concluded that there are acceptable grounds to believe that the Syrian Arab Air Forces were the perpetrators of the chemical weapons attack on seven April 2018 in Douma, Syrian Arab Republic.

The particular OPCW membership has hanging Syria’s voting rights plus privileges in the OPCW until it complies with its chemical substance weapons obligations. Syria should fully declare and kill all aspects of its chemical substance weapons programme.

We remember the sufferers of the Douma attack plus remain committed to pursuing the particular justice they deserve. We are steadfast in our commitment to holding all those who make use of chemical weapons to accounts.

Earlier reports from the IIT experienced found the Assad routine responsible for carrying out three separate attacks with sarin and chlorine in Ltamenah within March 2017 and using chlorine in Saraqib in Feb 2018. Both are prohibited under international law.

Today’s document from the Organisation for the Forbidance of Chemical Weapons provides compelling evidence that this heinous chemical weapons attack in Syria was carried out by Assad regime against its people. We share the OPCW’s assessment on Bashar al-Assad and his regime’s culpability and commend their resilience, professionalism and expert 3rd party analysis in the face of desperate efforts by Syria and Russian federation to block this investigation. The uk is determined to identify those responsible for chemical weapons attacks and hold them to account. Pursuing the attack in 2018, the UK and allies identified that a significant body of information pointed out the Syrian regime’s obligation for the attack. The Minister of State for the Middle East, South Asia, UN as well as the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Assault in Conflict, Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, has condemned the Assad regime for the use of chemical weapons pursuing the publication of a report from the OPCW which determined that this Syrian Arab Armed Forces used chlorine as a chemical weapon in an attack on Douma in April 2018. The particular OPCW’s meticulous investigations have now confirmed the UK’s assessment that the Assad regime has been responsible. The UK fully supports the OPCW’s investigations. The UK, France and the US also carried out a limited and targeted strike to degrade and deter the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime. We are obvious that we will not allow the utilization of chemical weapons to be normalised and remain firm in our resolve to respond appropriately.

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