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What the OPCW Interim Report on Douma Says and What it Does Not Say

... the right to determine responsibility for the use of chemical weapons, which was adopted in late June 2018 at the initiative of Western countries. A total of 82 member nations voted for the decision, as opposed to the coalition of 24 countries led by Russia, Syria and Iran. All the parties involved eagerly awaited the results of the OPCW’s Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) in Syria, which began its investigative work in Douma five days after the alleged attack. However, what the FFM released on July 6, 2018 was merely an interim report . This means that a final report has yet to be published....

16.08.2018

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The End of OPCW-UN mechanism. What Stands Behind the Russian “No”?

... casted three vetoes in a row to put an end to the OPCW-UN mechanism that Russia had initiated together with the United States. This article is a contribution to the analysis of 7 th JIM report in an effort to understand how reasonable or groundless the Russian accusations of JIM’s work are. Background There were two international bodies with regard to alleged use of chemical weapons on the territory of Syria: — Fact-Finding Mission (hereinafter “FFM”), established on the basis of the OPCW authority under the Chemical Weapons Convention (hereinafter “Convention”) on 29 April 2014; — OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (hereinafter “JIM”), established by the Security Council resolution 2235 (2015) on 7 August 2015. The FFM ...

20.06.2018

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