Whereas, on August 21, 2013, the Assad regime launched rockets carrying sarin gas, a deadly nerve agent, against Ghouta, a rebel-held suburb of Damascus, killing 1,429 men, women, and children, according to United States Government estimates, while injuring another 3,600 people; Whereas, on September 14, 2013, the Assad regime agreed to enter the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, done at Paris January 13, 1993, and entered into force April 29, 1997 (referred to in this Resolution as the Chemical Weapons Convention ), and to allow a joint mission between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (referred to in this Resolution as the OPCW–UN ) to oversee the removal and elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons program; Whereas, on September 27, 2013, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2118, which endorsed the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons program and agreed that in the event of noncompliance, it would take action under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations; Whereas, on October 16, 2013, the OPCW–UN was formally established to investigate and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons program and stockpiles; Whereas, on June 23, 2014, the OPCW–UN announced that the last of Syria’s declared chemical weapon stockpile had been shipped out of Syria for destruction; Whereas, on September 30, 2014, the OPCW–UN announced that it had completed its mandate and officially ended operations; Whereas, on October 14, 2013, the Syria Government entered into the Chemical Weapons Convention; Whereas the Chemical Weapons Convention has 192 member states and bans all chemical weapons; Whereas, the Assad regime was subsequently accused of committing more chemical weapons attacks on Syrian civilians in opposition-held areas by using chlorine-based chemical weapons, in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention