Syria\u2019s ambassador to the UN said Thursday that the country\u2019s efforts to uncover and dismantle the remnants of the former Bashar al\u2011Assad regime\u2019s chemical weapons programme have reached a critical milestone. Addressing the Security Council, Ibrahim Olabi stated that the Syrian government remains committed to national and regional security and to strengthening the global non\u2011proliferation regime.<\/p>\n
Cooperation with OPCW<\/p>\n
\u201cOur teams successfully reached high\u2011priority and high\u2011risk sites and handled highly sensitive materials and munitions with professionalism \u2026 transporting and securing them and facilitating access for the technical secretariat teams to carry out verification procedures,\u201d Olabi said. He described the operation as a \u201cdecisive turning point\u201d in efforts to uncover the full extent of the Assad regime\u2019s chemical weapons activities. Damascus has facilitated 32 visits by OPCW Technical Secretariat teams to sites suspected of being linked to the former programme.<\/p>\n
Determination to eliminate legacy<\/p>\n
\u201cThe discovery of these munitions provides an extremely important database for uncovering and documenting evidence. It helps advance investigations, thereby strengthening efforts at accountability and the identification of those involved,\u201d Olabi added. He emphasised that Syria itself has suffered from chemical weapons use for over 12 years and is determined to eliminate the legacy left by years of conflict. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syria\u2019s ambassador to the UN said Thursday that the country\u2019s efforts to uncover and dismantle the remnants of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[2735,9400,12627,95,180],"class_list":["post-145839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-assad","tag-chemical","tag-opcw","tag-syria","tag-weapons"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116693741363856101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}