The End of OPCW-UN mechanism. What Stands Behind the Russian “No”?

... notion is fixed in several documents, such as OPCW Executive Council decisions and SC resolution 2235 . This means that the responsibility of the FFM is limited only to collecting all available information about an incident and concluding whether chemical weapons were used or not. Unlike the FFM, JIM is authorized by the SC resolution 2235 (2015) “…to identify to the greatest extent feasible individuals, entities, groups, or governments who were perpetrators, organisers, sponsors or otherwise involved in the use of chemicals as weapons… ...