Åke Sellström

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Sellström (2014)

Åke Sellström (* 1948 ) is a Swedish scientist who specializes in chemical weapons . Sellström is also a lecturer in histology at Umeå University .

UN missions

In the 1990s, Sellström was a member of the United Nations Special Commission and oversaw the destruction of Iraqi chemical weapons. In 2002 he returned to Iraq as a member of the UN Commission of Inquiry under the direction of Hans Blix to check whether the country had resumed production of weapons of mass destruction, but found no evidence of this.

On March 26, 2013, Sellström was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to head a commission of inquiry to investigate allegations of chemical weapons use in the Syrian civil war . After long negotiations, an agreement was reached with the Syrian government in August and the group arrived in Damascus on August 18.

Sellström presented the final report of his commission to the Secretary General on September 15, who shortly thereafter presented it to the members of the Security Council. The report is publicly available on the website of the UN Secretariat for Disarmament.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tagesspiegel: "Portrait Åke Sellström" from August 30, 2013, viewed on October 25, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Der Spiegel: "Civil War: Swedish professor examines allegations of poison gas in Syria" from March 26, 2013, viewed on August 19, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Federal Foreign Office: "Syria: Comprehensive Access for Chemical Weapons Inspectors" from August 20, 2013, viewed on August 20, 2013 .
  4. ↑ "Ban receives report from team probing possible chemical weapons use in Syria, will brief Security Council on findings" from September 15, 2013, viewed on September 16, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Report on the Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in the Ghouta Area of ​​Damascus on August 21, 2013, viewed on October 25, 2013 (PDF; 3.5 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Sellström, Åke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948