Washington (CNN) The White House is condemning the Syrian government Thursday after having announced that a year-long UN-backed investigation found that both the Assad regime and ISIS had used chemical weapons. "It is now impossible to deny that the Syrian regime has repeatedly used industrial chlorine as a weapon against its own people," US National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said in a statement Wednesday. The NSC statement went on to accuse the regime of violating the Chemical Weapons Convention and a UN resolution. The investigation, led by the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the implementing body of the Chemical Weapons Convention, was launched a year ago at the behest members of the UN Security Council with the aim of identifying the perpetrators of chemical weapons attacks in Syria.UN report says Syria government and ISIS used chlorine and mustard gas weaponsSecurity Council to meet Tuesday to discuss findings
The administration on Wednesday also condemned that attack and highlighted its efforts to curb _' chemical weapons activities, including targeted airstrikes and the capture of an ISIS chemical expert in March.