A/RES/70/41
United Nations
Distr.: General
11 December 2015
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 97 (l)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 7 December 2015
[on the report of the First Committee (A/70/460)]
70/41.
Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition
of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use
of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject of chemical weapons, in
particular resolution 69/67 of 2 December 2014,
Determined to achieve the effective prohibition of the development,
production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and their
destruction,
Noting with satisfaction that, since the adoption of resolution 69/67, two
additional States have joined the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,
Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction,1
bringing the total number of States parties to the Convention to 192,
Reaffirming the broad support for the decision of the Director General of the
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to send a mission to establish
the facts surrounding the allegations of the use of toxic chemicals, reportedly
chlorine, for hostile purposes in the Syrian Arab Republic, and re-emphasizing its
unequivocal support for the decision of the Director General to continue the
mission, while stressing that the safety and security of mission personnel remains
the top priority,
Taking note of decision EC-M-48/DEC.1 of 4 February 2015 of the Executive
Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on reports of
the fact-finding mission in the Syrian Arab Republic and Security Council
resolutions 2209 (2015) of 6 March 2015 on toxic chemicals that have been used as
a weapon in the Syrian Arab Republic and 2235 (2015) of 7 August 2015 on the
establishment and operation of the Joint Investigative Mechanism of the
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations,
Reaffirming its condemnation, in the strongest possible terms, of the use of
chemical weapons by anyone under any circumstances, emphasizing that any use of
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