S/20151 SC

The Security Council, Recalling its resolution 612 (1988) Having considered Add.1, S/20063 and the reports of the missions dispatched by the Secretary-General to investigate allegations of the use of chemical weapons in the conflict between Iran and Iraq, Deeply dismayed by the conclusions that there had been continued use of chemical weapons in the conflict and that such use against Iranians had become more intense and frequent, Profoundly concerned by the danger of possible use of chemical weapons in the future, Bearing in mind the current negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament on the complete and effective prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of chemical weapons and on their destruction, Determined to intensify its efforts to end all use of chemical weapons in violation of international obligations now and in the future, 1. Condemns resolutely the use of chemical weapons in the conflict between Iran and Iraq, in violation of the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925, and in defiance of its resolution 612 (1988); 2. Encourages the Secretary-General to carry out promptly investigations into possible use allegations brought to his attention by any Member State concerning chemical and bacteriological (biological) or toxin weapons that may constitute a violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol or other relevant rules of customary international law, in order to ascertain the facts of the matter, and to report the results; 3 _ Calls upon all the parties to apply strict control of chemical weapons, in particular chemical products serving for conflict, when the production of it is established or when there is substantial reason to believe that they have used chemical weapons in violation of international obligations; 4 _ Decides to consider immediately, effective measures taking into account the investigations of the appropriate Charter Secretary-General of the United Nations, wherever and should there be any future use of chemical weapons in violation of international law, by whomever committed.

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