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    Security Council votes on extension of commission of inquiry into chemical attacks in Syria

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    Post by Rocky Thu 16 Nov 2017, 3:09 am

    Security Council votes on extension of commission of inquiry into chemical attacks in Syria


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    Baghdad - Agencies
    The United Nations Security Council on Thursday voted on two draft resolutions, one US and one Russian, to renew the mandate of an international commission of inquiry into chemical weapons attacks in Syria, a move that could make Russia veto for the tenth time to prevent any action on Syria, diplomats said. .
    Diplomats at the United Nations said Washington and Moscow had asked the Security Council to vote on two competing draft resolutions on Thursday, one for the United States and the other for Russia, to extend the UN team investigating attacks using chemical weapons in Syria.
    The mandate of a joint commission of inquiry by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), known as the Joint Investigation Mechanism, concludes that the Syrian government used banned sarin gas in an attack on April 4.
    However, the dispute over this mandate is still ongoing between the United States and Russia. While Washington wants to extend it without any amendment, Moscow requires the review of the functions and composition of the Commission of Inquiry before extending the mandate.
    A senior UN diplomatic source said the UN Security Council would vote on Thursday night on a US draft resolution extending the mission of the investigation team to identify those responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
    The source added that the vote on the draft US resolution will be at 20:00 GMT, followed immediately vote on the Russian draft resolution.
    The common denominator between the US and Russian draft resolutions is to extend the commission's mandate for a year. Moscow has proposed in a previous draft that the extension period be six months, while Washington has proposed a two-year period and then reduced it in a later draft to 18 months. Over a period of one year.
    The draft resolution submitted by Russia, an ally of the Syrian regime, calls for reconsidering the Commission's mandate and freezing the results of its work, and that its investigators return to Syria for field investigations.
    Last month, a report by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) accused the Syrian Air Force of bombing the disputed town of Khan Sheikun in northern Idlib province on April 4, killing more than 80 people.
    But Russia refused to acknowledge the results of the investigation on the grounds that investigators did not travel to Khan Sheikhan and worked on samples that could be manipulated by Western intelligence services.
    The US draft, however, devotes the results of the investigation to Khan Sheikhan's attack, and does not modify the mandate given to investigators who are still investigating about 60 alleged chemical attacks
    In order to pass one of these bills, the 15-nation Security Council must vote by at least nine votes, and none of the five permanent members (the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France) should veto it.

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