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5 18 Participants underscored the importance of respecting international humanitarian law and human rights law by all and at all times, and condemned those who do not respect this. 19 Participants stressed once again that the Syrian regime will not escape accountability and punishment for its violations of international law. 20 Participants called upon the International community to take the necessary measures to deny the Syrian regime access to any means of repression and violence, and demanded the countries that have been supplying it with those tools to end this practice and assume their moral responsibility towards the victims. 21 Participants reaffirmed the importance of international efforts to document the Syrian Regime violations of international law, in particular, their support to the work and reports of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, which enabled the identification of continuous gross human rights violations perpetrated against the Syrian people. These reports confirmed the participation of the regime’s security forces in atrocities committed against civilians, including gross violations of the humanitarian international law and human rights law. 22 Participants welcomed the overwhelming support for the two resolutions adopted by the UN Human Rights Council and the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly (27/11/2012) on the situation of human rights in Syria. They expressed support for the work of the UN Commission of Inquiry to document human rights violations and abuses for a future accountability process. They welcomed the decision of the Human Rights Council on 27 September to extend the mandate of the UN Commission of Inquiry, welcome the appointment of two new members to that body and fully support their call for human rights violations and abuses to be thoroughly investigated. Participants called upon the regime to guarantee access into Syria for the Commission, with a view toward enabling it to carry out its full mandate within Syria. 23 Participants confirmed the necessity of holding accountable perpetrators of crimes under legitimate legal proceedings in respect of international standards preventing any form of individual or collective reprisal. Participants invited all the Syrians and civil society organizations to publicly dissociate themselves from human rights violations. 24 Participants stressed that any use of chemical or biological weapons by the Syrian regime would be abhorrent and that this would draw a serious response from the International community, and that thos