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World news29 April 2021

OPCW Releases Second Report of the Investigation and Identification Team (IIT)

Field: Chemical Tiếng Việt

Unofficial translation from the Vietnamese original.

On 12 April 2021, at its headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released the second report of the Investigation and Identification Team (IIT: Investigation and Identification Team) on the findings of its investigation conducted from April 2020 to March 2021, focusing on the incident that took place in Saraqib, Syrian Arab Republic, on 4 February 2018. This report follows the first report, issued on 8 April 2020, on three incidents that occurred in Ltamenah on 24, 25 and 30 March 2017.

The IIT was established by the OPCW Director-General pursuant to the decision of the Conference of the States Parties entitled “Addressing the Threat from Chemical Weapons Use” (C-SS-4/DEC.3, dated 27 June 2018). The IIT began its work in June 2019 and issued its first report on 8 April 2020, in which it focused on a number of incidents where the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) had determined that chemical weapons had been used or were likely to have been used on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic but where the FFM had not reached a final conclusion. The IIT is not a judicial body with the authority to assign individual criminal responsibility, nor does it have the authority to make final findings of non-compliance with the Convention; rather, its mandate is to establish the facts relating to the perpetrators of the use of chemical weapons by identifying all information potentially relevant to the origin of those weapons.

The second IIT report presents the findings of the investigations conducted from April 2020 to March 2021 into the incident that took place in Saraqib, Syrian Arab Republic, on 4 February 2018, concluding that there are reasonable grounds to believe that at approximately 21:22 on 4 February 2018, during attacks on Saraqib, a military helicopter of the Syrian Arab Air Force under the call sign "Alpha-253”, under the control of the Tiger Forces and departing from Al Mujanzarat air base, dropped a cylinder of chlorine gas, which dispersed over a large area and affected 12 victims.

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