UN accuses Syria of failing to answer for chemical weapons program
The UN's top disarmament official said Syria's full disclosure was "essential" to resolving outstanding issues.
The United Nation’s top representative for disarmament told the Security Council on Wednesday that Syria has failed to provide complete answers on its history with chemical weapons.
Damascus’ transparency record remains incomplete, Izumi Nakamitsu told the international body on Wednesday.
Nakamitsu said the Bashar al-Assad government has submitted 17 amendments and several supplementary documents to its original weapons declaration, but still has left 20 out of 24 requests for disclosure unresolved since a 2013 agreement to rid the country of chemical weapons.
“Full cooperation by the Syrian Arab Republic with the OPCW [Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons] Technical Secretariat is essential to closing these outstanding issues,” she said.
