One of the reasons for this is that ISIS(in addition to Assad) sometimes uses Clorine Gas to take over cities and areas too. Because they can either kill or disable all men, women and children in a given area by doing this. So, bringing this to the UN is very important. However, it can't be stopped. But war crimes trials for it will be created at some time in the future by the U.N.
US Draft Urges UN to Condemn Use of Chlorine in Syria
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United States has circulated a draft resolution in the U.N. Security
Council that condemns the use of toxic chemicals such as chlorine in Syria without assigning blame, while threatening militarily enforced action in the case of further violations ...
US Draft Urges UN to Condemn Use of Chlorine in Syria
The United States has circulated a draft resolution in the U.N. Security Council that condemns the use of toxic chemicals such as chlorine in Syria
without assigning blame, while threatening militarily enforced action
in the case of further violations. The council will vote on it Friday
morning.
The draft obtained Thursday by The Associated Press follows last month's
condemnation by the world's chemical weapons watchdog of the use of
chlorine in Syria as a breach of international law.
While its fact-finding mission concluded "with a high degree of
confidence" that chlorine was used on three villages in Syria last year,
killing 13 people, the executive council of the Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons did not assign blame.
Some council members such as Britain and France have blamed Syria's
government for the attacks, pointing out that OPCW reports have linked
chlorine attacks to helicopters and that only Syria's government has
helicopters.
"There are clear and abundant evidence that point to the responsibility
of Syrian authorities," French Ambassador Francois Delattre told
reporters Friday evening. Syrian Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari did not
comment to reporters.
The new draft threatens action against further violations under a
council resolution in 2013 that banned Syria's use of chemical weapons.
The resolution also applies to any party in the Syrian conflict, which
is about to enter its fifth year and has killed an estimated 220,000
people.
The draft says such actions should be imposed under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, meaning they could be militarily enforced.
Syria joined the OPCW in 2013 and declared a 1,300-ton chemical weapon
arsenal that has since been destroyed, though some council members worry
that the government didn't declare everything it had. Chlorine is not a
chemical that has to be declared to the OPCW because it is also used
for regular purposes in industry.
The fact-finding mission's report on last year's attacks said 32 of 37
people interviewed "saw or heard the sound of a helicopter over the
village at the time of the attack with barrel bombs containing toxic
chemicals."
Syria denies using chlorine or other chemical weapons and blames "terrorists" for such attacks.
The country's move to join the OPCW came amid international outcry and
the threat of U.S. airstrikes over a chemical attack on a Damascus
suburb that killed hundreds of civilians. The U.S. and Western allies
accused the Syrian government of being responsible for that attack,
while Damascus blamed rebels.
The 2013 resolution was a rare agreement on Syria by the council, which
has been blocked from taking other actions by the threat of a veto from
Russia, Syria's ally. An attempt to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court last year, for example, failed.
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