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<p>As set out in the statement of 13 December 2018 [HCWS1177] by the Foreign Secretary
and his predecessor’s update to the House on 9 July 2018, the UK was at the forefront
of significant successful diplomatic efforts last year to secure, fund and implement
decisions to enable the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
to attribute responsibility for chemical weapons attacks in Syria, and more widely
at the request of an affected State Party. In accordance with the terms of the June
Decision, on 15 November 2018, the Director General of the OPCW set out the measures
that the OPCW will implement to provide technical expertise on attribution to requesting
States Parties and set out his proposals to establish independent, impartial, expert
arrangements to assist with this. We continue to work with international partners
in supporting the OPCW Director General and the OPCW Technical Secretariat to put
in place structures and staffing to take forward their mandated attribution work,
a significant step forward in international efforts to end use of chemical weapons.</p>
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