The United Nations Security Council is holding closed consultations on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, German Ambassador to the United Nations Christoph Heusgen told reporters on Wednesday
NEW YORK (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 06th February, 2019) The United Nations Security Council is holding closed consultations on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, German Ambassador to the United Nations Christoph Heusgen told reporters on Wednesday."The agenda will be Syria chemical weapons; this comes on the agenda every month," Heusgen said as he arrived to the meeting.
Heusgen said Germany would back a proposal to create a new mechanism to allow the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to assign blame for attacks involving toxic chemicals.
Damascus has repeatedly denied any involvement in chemical attacks on civilians. Moreover, Syrian President Bashar Assad has emphasized that Damascus got rid of its chemical weapons stockpiles under the supervision of the OPCW.
Both Damascus and Moscow have accused militants and the White Helmets non-governmental organization of staging several provocations involving chemical weapons to influence public opinion and justify foreign intervention in Syria.
The ambassador said the second topic on the Security Council's agenda would be Israel's decision to expel an international monitoring force from the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
Heusgen expressed his hope that the suspension of this mechanism would not lead to the escalation of tensions in Hebron.
During the seven-year war in Syria, the country has been rocked by several chemical attacks and what was presented as such. The West mostly puts the blame for the incidents on Damascus.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on January 28 that he had decided not to renew the mandate of the force, known as the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH).
