[Peace-discuss] OPCW Issues Report on Technical Assistance Requested by the United Kingdom

Thu Apr 12 12:21:24 UTC 2018

For those of you who do not accept Francis A Boyle as the expert he claims
to be - Christopher Charles Busby most certainly is not an expert nor is
Douglas Lind Rokke.  I have attempted to learn more about Rokke's actual
training in detection and protecting against chemical weapons.  He took
similar course to the one I took.  Mine was in 1973 and last 4 weeks and
was for Air Force officers.  He took the course for NCO's in the Army
Reserve and may have even taught it to other reservists.  I doubt he
learned much about binary weapons of the type used in this attack.  He has
made many claims about things that facts from his own records have shown
not to be true.

Roger Helbig

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Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 4:25 AM
Subject: OPCW Issues Report on Technical Assistance Requested by the United
Kingdom

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*For Immediate Release*
OPCW Issues Report on Technical Assistance Requested by the United Kingdom

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — 12 April 2018 — The Organisation for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) transmitted yesterday to the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) the report of the OPCW’s
mission to provide requested technical assistance in regard to the
Salisbury incident on 4 March 2018.

The results of the analysis by the OPCW designated laboratories of
environmental and biomedical samples collected by the OPCW team confirm the
findings of the United Kingdom relating to the identity of the toxic
chemical that was used in Salisbury and severely injured three people.

The UK’s delegation to the OPCW requested that the Technical Secretariat
share the report with all States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention
(CWC) and to make the Executive Summary of the report publicly available.

The Director-General, Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, thanked the four OPCW
designated laboratories that supported the technical assistance request for
their swift and thorough analysis.
Background

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland requested
technical assistance from the OPCW Technical Secretariat, under
subparagraph 38(e) of Article VIII of the Chemical Weapons Convention, in
relation to an incident in Salisbury on 4 March 2018 involving a toxic
chemical—allegedly a nerve agent—and the poisoning and hospitalisation of
three individuals.

The OPCW team worked independently and is not involved in the national
investigation by the UK authorities. No State Party was involved in the
technical work carried out by the Technical Secretariat.

OPCW designated laboratories are a lynchpin of the Organisation’s
verification regime and its capacity to investigate allegations of the use
of chemical weapons. They must be able to perform off-site analysis of
chemical samples collected by OPCW inspectors from chemical production
facilities, storage depots and other installations, or from the site of an
alleged use of chemical weapons. These laboratories offer the necessary
assurance to our States Parties that chemical analyses needed to make
determinations or to clarify issues occurring during OPCW deployments are
carried out competently, impartially, and with unambiguous results.

As the implementing body for the Chemical Weapons Convention, the OPCW
oversees the global endeavour to permanently and verifiably eliminate
chemical weapons. Since the Convention’s entry into force in 1997 – and
with its 192 States Parties – it is the most successful disarmament treaty
eliminating an entire class of weapons of mass destruction.

Over ninety-six per cent of all chemical weapon stockpiles declared by
possessor States have been destroyed under OPCW verification. For its
extensive efforts in eliminating chemical weapons, the OPCW received the
2013 Nobel Prize for Peace.
More Information

SUMMARY OF THE REPORT ON ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT IN SUPPORT OF A REQUEST FOR
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE BY THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN
IRELAND <http://opcwpublicaffairs.cmail19.com/t/d-l-ohuulll-wukhjutyu-y/>

Update by the Director-General to the Executive Council at its
Fifty-Seventh Session
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