Syria Censured by Global Chemical Weapons Watchdog

OPCW members vote to prevent Syria from acquiring materials for poison gas production amid ongoing violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Members of the global chemical weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition for Chemical Weapons (OPCW), have censured Syria for violating its international obligations to declare and surrender banned toxic munitions.
The OPCW has called for a ban on transfers of chemicals to Syria and has adopted a decision in response to Syria's non-compliance to counter the threat of proliferation of chemical weapons.
The decision was adopted in a vote of 69 to 10, with 45 abstentions.
Syria joined the OPCW in 2013, agreeing to give up its chemical weapons stockpile in its entirety and to abandon all production and storage facilities.
Repeated investigations by the United Nations and the OPCW's special Investigation and Identification Team concluded that Syrian government forces used the nerve agent sarin and chlorine barrel bombs in attacks between 2015 and 2018.