Resolution 612 (1988)
of 9 May 1988

The Security Council,

Having considered the report of 25 April 1988 38 of the
mission dispatched by the Secretary-General to investigate
allegations of the use of chemical weapons in the conflict
between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq,

Dismayed by the mission’s conclusions that chemical
weapons continue to be used in the conflict and that their
use has been on an even more intensive scale than before,

1. Affirms the urgent necessity of strict observance of
the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of
Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17
June 1925; 39

2. Condemns vigorously the continued use of chemical
weapons in the conflict between the Islamic Republic of
Iran and Iraq contrary to the obligations under the Geneva
Protocol;

3. Expects both sides to refrain from the future use of
chemical weapons in accordance with their obligations under the Geneva Protocol;

4. Calls upon all States to continue to apply or to
establish strict control of the export to the parties to the
conflict of chemical products serving for the production of
chemical weapons;

5. Decides to remain seized of the matter and expresses
its determination to review the implementation of the
present resolution.

Adopted unanimously at the
2812th meeting.



38 Ibid. , document S/19823 and Corr. 1.
39 League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. XCIV (1929), No. 2138.
