UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges the Security Council to revive efforts to punish those responsible for chemical weapons use in Syria after Russia killed off a UN probe of the gas attacks.
Guterres says the use of chemical weapons in Syria’s nearly seven-year war “seriously challenges the global taboo against these weapons of mass destruction.”
“If the use of chemical weapons in Syria is once again determined, the international community needs to find an appropriate way to identify those responsible and hold them to account,” he tells a council meeting on non-proliferation.
Russia used its veto power twice in November to block the renewal of a UN investigative panel tasked with identifying those responsible for chemical attacks in Syria.
A month earlier, the panel had released a damning report that found the Syrian air force had dropped sarin on the rebel-held village of Khan Sheikhun in April, killing scores of people.
A man being treated at hospital after a suspected chemical weapons attack in Idlib province in Syria, August 1, 2016. (Screenshot/YouTube)
— AFP
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