You're reading: BBC: Syria – Russia vetoes extension of chemical weapons inquiry

BBC: Syria – Russia vetoes extension of chemical weapons inquiry

By BBC.

Published Oct. 24, 2017 at 9:51 pm

An unconscious Syrian child is carried at a hospital in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, following a suspected toxic gas attack on April 4, 2017.

Photo by AFP

Russia has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution extending the mandate of the only official mission investigating the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

The Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) was set up in 2015 to identify perpetrators of chemical attacks.