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Syria: Chemical Weapons

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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 180699, tabled on 17 October 2018

Question

Chris Williamson
Labour
Derby North
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 September 2018 to Question 172062 on Syria: chemical weapons, what the evidential basis is for his statement that the Director General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons reported that they had been prevented from deploying to Douma by Russia and Syria.

Answer

Sir Alan Duncan
Conservative
Rutland and Melton
Commons

Answered on

22 October 2018

The Director General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) reported in detail on 16 April and again on 18 April to the Executive Council meeting of the OPCW about the attempted deployment of the Fact Finding Mission to Douma. The UK is a member of the Executive Council and was represented at both meetings. The OPCW Director General's relevant statements to the Executive Council are available on the website of the OPCW.

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