A report unveiled at a UN Security Council session discusses the discovery of 75 suspicious chemical cylinders in Syria that could have caused a serious environmental and health disaster.
During a recent session at the UN Security Council, a routine diplomatic report exposed a severe security incident involving 75 old, empty chemical cylinders found in a welding workshop in Syria. This incident could have potentially turned into an uncalculated health and environmental disaster. These cylinders are believed to contain toxic substances from Syria's chemical program during the regime of the ousted president Bashar al-Assad.
Syria's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ibrahim al-Ali, detailed that the story began when units from the Syrian Ministry of Defense discovered these cylinders at an abandoned military site. Emphasizing Syria's commitment to transparency and cooperation for the safety of its people, the Syrian National Committee reported the findings to the Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and suggested transporting some cylinders to The Hague as a
