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UN briefing: OPCW has visited 19 Syrian sites in 2025; at least two may be declarable
Summary
A UN Office for Disarmament Affairs briefing to the Security Council reported OPCW field visits to 19 locations in Syria in 2025, collection of samples and documents, and that at least two sites could be declarable under the Chemical Weapons Convention; the briefing urged international support to complete verification and destruction work.
Adedeji Ebbu, speaking for the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, told the Security Council that the OPCW technical secretariat has carried out deployments in Syria during 2025 and has visited 19 locations since March of that year. He said the work has included interviews with former chemical-weapons experts, the collection of six samples and more than 6,000 documents, and the identification of at least two sites that "could be declarable under the Chemical Weapons Convention."
Ebbu said the OPCW has conducted missions in March, April, June, August, September, October and November 2025 and that of the 19 locations visited, four were previously declared and 15 were suspected chemical-weapons-related sites. "The OPCW technical secretariat has reported, and I quote, 'serious concern,'" he said, referring to long-standing problems with…
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