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Disarmament


SG/SM/18308-DC/3674

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, in Santiago today:

DC/3668

NEW YORK, 27 October (Joint Investigative Mechanism) — The Security Council considered the fourth report (document S/2016/888) of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)–United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism, pursuant to resolution 2235 (2015), which mandated the Mechanism to identify to the greatest extent feasible those involved in the use of chemicals as weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic where the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission determined that a specific incident involved or likely involved the use of chemicals as weapons.