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The situation in the Syrian Arab Republic A/RES/67/262 5/8 conditions of detention comply with applicable international law, and immediately allow access of independent monitors to all detention facilities; 6. Strongly condemns the shelling as well as the shooting by the Syrian armed forces into neighbouring countries, which led to casualties and injuries of the civilians of those countries as well as of Syrian refugees, underlines that such incidents violated international law, stresses the grave threat of the crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic on the security of its neighbours and on regional peace and stability, as well as its grave implications for international peace and security, and calls upon the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic to respect the sovereignty of neighbouring States and meet its international obligations in this regard; 7. Demands that the Syrian authorities grant the independent international commission of inquiry and individuals working on its behalf immediate, full and unfettered entry and access to all areas of the Syrian Arab Republic, and also demands that all parties cooperate fully with the commission of inquiry in the performance of its mandate to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law since March 2011, as well as with other United Nations special procedures, and invites the commission of inquiry to brief the General Assembly on the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic; 8. Stresses again the importance of ensuring accountability and the need to end impunity and hold to account all those responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law and serious violations and abuses of international human rights law, including those that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, as recommended by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; 9. Encourages the Security Council to consider appropriate measures in this regard; 10. Underlines the importance that the Syrian people, on the basis of broad, inclusive and credible consultations, should determine, within the framework provided by international law and based upon the complementarity principle, the domestic process and mechanisms to achieve reconciliation, truth and accountability for gross violations, as well as reparations and effective remedies for the victims; 11. Demands that the Syrian authorities strictly observe their obligations under international law with respect to chemical and biological weapons, including Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) of 28 April 2004 and 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 1925,11 and also demands that the Syrian authorities refrain from using or transferring to non-State actors any chemical and biological weapons or any related material, and that the Syrian authorities meet their obligations to account for and to secure all chemical and biological weapons and any related material; 12. Also demands that the Syrian authorities grant full and unfettered access to the investigation of the Secretary-General into all alleged uses of chemical weapons, and calls upon all parties to cooperate with the investigation; _______________ 11 League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. XCIV, No. 2138