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Syria: Fenethylline

Commons · Question 19061 · Tabled 10 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 17 Dec 2024

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Asked by Alicia Kearns

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the (a) identification and (b) destruction of Captagon production facilities in Syria.

Answer

Answered by Hamish Falconer, 17 Dec 2024

We are concerned by the growth of the Captagon industry, which as well as enriching the former Assad regime is fuelling regional instability and generating vast revenues for criminal gangs and armed groups in Syria and across the region. We are working wi...