A number of members of the UN Security Council called on the Syrian regime, on Tuesday, to provide "guarantees" regarding the ban of chemical weapons, after publishing a report holding it responsible for the chlorine gas attack on Douma in Eastern Ghouta in 2018, an accusation denied by Damascus and Moscow.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons accused the Syrian regime in late January of carrying out a chlorine attack that killed 43 people in the city of Douma, near Damascus, in 2018, when it was under the control of opposition fighters.

The organization said that an investigation that lasted nearly two years concluded that at least one government military helicopter dropped two gas cylinders in the city of Douma, killing 43 people during the war in Syria.

And 8 members of the UN Security Council (Albania, Ecuador, France, Japan, Malta, Switzerland, Britain and the United States) said - in a joint statement - that the report is "an important and necessary step to establish the truth about the horrific attack on Douma in 2018."

The eight members indicated that there were "no guarantees" that Damascus would destroy its stockpile of chemical weapons, considering that it "continues to violate its obligations" under the International Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which constitutes a "threat to international security."

And the members continued in their statement, "We will not concede until we obtain assurances from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that Syria has taken the necessary measures to exclude the possibility of using chemical weapons anywhere, at any time, and in all circumstances."

We are very concerned that the Syrian regime has been "actively working to replenish its stockpile of chemical weapons since at least 2018," said British Ambassador to the United Nations Barbara Woodward.

Meanwhile, Russia's delegate to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, said that the OPCW "instead of being a respected and impartial international body... has become a tool without authority, controlled by a group of Western countries, covering up the forgery and flagrant violations of the convention."

Last month, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said - in a statement - that the organization's report did not include any evidence of what it described as the alleged incident, adding that Syria rejects what was stated in it altogether.

The Syrian regime and its ally Russia say that the Douma attack was orchestrated by the "Syrian Civil Defense" (the White Helmets), a charge denied by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.