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Disarmament


DC/3643

NEW YORK, 6 August (Joint Investigative Mechanism) — The Joint Investigative Mechanism, mandated by Security Council resolution 2235 (2015) to identify those responsible for the use of chemicals as weapons in Syria, visited Damascus this week.  The Leadership Panel met with Syria’s relevant Government and other officials to discuss matters pertaining to the Mechanism’s mandate.

DC/3634

NEW YORK, 31 May (Joint Investigative Mechanism) — The host country agreement between the Netherlands and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons–United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism was signed today in The Hague by Johan van der Werff, Ambassador responsible for international organizations at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Virginia Gamba, head of the Joint Investigative Mechanism.

SC/12367-DC/3633

United Nations Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) is a key instrument in global efforts to prevent non-State actors, in particular terrorists, from threatening society with weapons of mass destruction, whether nuclear, chemical or biological.  The resolution does this by requiring States to adopt laws with penalties that make such actions criminal, whether undertaken directly or by financing or assisting them; and by requiring States to implement wide-ranging domestic controls designed to keep weapons of mass destruction or the means to produce them out of the hands of non-State actors.