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France contributes €1M to OPCW’s Trust Fund for Syria Missions
The Government of France is contributing €1M toward supporting the activities of the Trust Fund for Syria Missions at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
The Fund supports the Organisation’s special missions and contingency operations related specifically to the Syrian Arab Republic. France’s new contribution aims to assist in full elimination of the Syrian Chemical Weapons Programme and clarification of facts related to the alleged use of chemical weapons, in accordance with the Chemical Weapons Convention and relevant decisions of the policy-making organs of the OPCW. The contribution will support the work of the Declaration Assessment Team (DAT) and the Fact-Finding Mission (FFM).
UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu did not name the agent detected in samples by the OPCW.
But she said its presence “inside storage containers of large volume at a previously declared chemical weapons facility may imply undeclared production activities”.
Syria joined the Chemical Weapons Convention in September 2013, pressed by its close ally Russia, after a deadly chemical weapons attack that the West blamed on Damascus.
By August 2014, President Bashar Al Assad’s government declared
the destruction of its chemical weapons was complete
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But Syria’s initial declaration of its chemical stockpiles and chemical weapons production sites to the OPCW is disputed