To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he (a) raised with his Syrian counterpart and (b) made representations to the Syrian Government that Syria should join the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons since May 2010.

I called for Syria to join the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) without delay at the third CWC Review Conference on 9 April 2013. We have not directly raised with our Syrian counterpart, nor made representations to the Syrian Government, pressing them to join the Chemical Weapons Convention since May 2010.