“We strongly urge all states to support strong and swift action by the Security Council”.
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Syria agreed to destroy its chemical weapons in 2013 under a deal brokered by Moscow and Washington.
The Joint Investigative Mechanism, set up in 2015 to look into a series of attacks in Syria, has released its report to the Security Council.
President Bashar-al Assad and ISIS have both used chemical weapons against Syrian people, a United Nations report found.
Churkin said it was important the report concluded that Islamic State militants had used mustard gas “because all talk we heard about any use of chemical weapons was an effort to ascribe things to the Syrian government”.
The United States will work with our worldwide partners to seek accountability through appropriate diplomatic mechanisms, including through the United Nations Security Council and the OPCW.
In its clearest apportioning of blame to date, the United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), has concluded after a year of investigation that the regime used chlorine gas on its population.
She accused the Syrian government of violating a September 2013 resolution which orders the council “to impose measures” under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter for “any use of chemical weapons by anyone in the Syrian Arab Republic”.
One of the confirmed cases was an attack on the town of Sarmin in March previous year, which killed three generations of the Taleb family.
“Chemical weapons inflict excruciating pain and suffering. If they were to veto such a resolution they would need to justify the use of chemical weapons”, one senior diplomat said.
It also confirmed that in August 2015 ISIS used mustard gas against civilians in Syria. However, the committee was not able to determine with certainty that chemical weapons were used in 6 other incidents that it investigated.
Three other attacks appeared to have been carried out by the government but it could not be certain, the team said in its report.
Louis Charbonneau, the UN’s director at Human Rights Watch, said the council must ensure that those responsible for “the sickening, illegal use of chemical weapons in Syria. are brought to justice in a court of law”.
It said attacks in Kafr Zita in Hama governorate on April 18, 2014, Qmenas, in Idlib governorate on March 16, 2015, and Binnish in Idlib governorate on March 24, 2015, merit further investigation.
A US -led military intervention in Syria looked to be on the cards in 2013 until Assad agreed to hand over the country’s chemical weapons stockpile.
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UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon submitted the report to the members of the Security Council Wednesday.
