Foreign Affairs committee  So far, chemical weapons were really the most pressing threat because we had clear indications. You followed what happened to the history on which my director general briefed this committee in December. That was urging the destruction of weapons of mass destruction, to make sure

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, right now they are under full control. The problem is the removal of these chemicals out of Syria.

Foreign Affairs committee  Even if we could say that right now after the two first phases that they are under full control, we never could exclude the possibility, given the situation of conflict in the country, that they could fall into the wrong hands. That's why we pressed Syria to remove all these chem

Foreign Affairs committee  On that process, it was only on chemical weapons because it was closely monitored and assessed by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. In terms of cluster munitions, as we said at the earlier session in December, and Canada has also commented publicly in th

Foreign Affairs committee  They could still have clusters, yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  The process led by the UN and the OPCW, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, only related to chemical weapons. This is what I was asked to talk about today. When you talk about other prohibited weapons, do you have something more precise in mind? Do you mea

Foreign Affairs committee  Weapons of mass destruction?

Foreign Affairs committee  In terms of the declaration coming from the Government of Syria we assessed that it was pretty accurate. When I say “we” it was really a shared assessment...all our main partners, as well as the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. We have some ways, if I may s

Foreign Affairs committee  But again, the OPCW inspectors have been in all these facilities and for that we have the highest confidence in the information received by them, by all these inspections. They have been inspected and all these facilities have been, I would say, deactivated, roughly destroyed. T

Foreign Affairs committee  Norway and Denmark have chartered frigates specifically for the transfer from the port of Lattakia and the large American ship.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, and 5% of the chemical agents that have been removed are already on those two ships.

Foreign Affairs committee  That is correct.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm guessing that you're referring to conventional weapons?

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not aware of any study, any recent review about that specific point. But I know that a few months ago there were reports about a new delivery of weapons, and Russia suspended that because it was considered as not being very helpful. So we could try to see if there have been s

Foreign Affairs committee  We are among the five top.