Geneva protocol

On more than one occasion in Eastern Ghouta, chemical weapons - banned by the Geneva protocol and the Chemical Weapons Convention - were used to attack Douma.

The 1925 Geneva Protocol was intended to ban military use of chemical weapons in warfare.

“The villa is symmetric, which is practical for meetings. We can give each delegation the exact same number of rooms,” Marion Bordier Bueschi, acting head of Geneva protocol, told reporters.

The Geneva Protocol exception for the domestic use of tear gas specifies that any chemicals used on civilians must have effects that “disappear within a short time.”

Following the ratification of the Geneva Protocol in 1925, the U.S. military was left with a stockpile of chemical weapons but no place to use them.