To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the recommendation in paragraph 6.2.7 of the Council of Europe Resolution 2190 (2017) that the UN's ordinary budget should contribute to the funding of an investigative team to gather evidence of war crimes in Syria.
Answered on
6 November 2017
On 21 September 2017, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to adopt UK-proposed Daesh Accountability Resolution 2379. The Investigative Team and Special Adviser to be established under UNSCR 2379 will be funded through the UN's Regular Budget, supplemented by voluntary contributions to a UN Trust Fund. The UK has pledged £1 million as a voluntary contribution to support the setting up of the Investigative Team which will collect evidence of Daesh's crimes in Iraq. In Syria, we are supporting and have funded (£200,000) the International Independent and Impartial Mechanism (IIIM) which has been established to prepare evidence for future prosecutions.