27 September 2013

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted UNSCR 2118 concerned with the removal of chemical weapons from Syria in the aftermath of the massacre committed by the Syrian regime in Eastern Ghouta on 21 August 2013.

The resolution provides for measures to expediate the dismantling of the Syrian government’s chemical weapons program and subjecting it to strict verification processes. It further calls for its full implementation in the most expediate and safest manner. It stresses that Damascus shall not use, develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile or retain chemical weapons, or transfer, directly or indirectly, chemical weapons to other States or non-State actors.