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EU slams Syria for gaps in chemical weapons declaration

A European Union envoy criticized Syria on Monday for "gaps and contradictions" in its declarations about its chemical weapons arsenal to the global watchdog overseeing the destruction of the toxic armaments.

 

Jacek Bylica of Luxembourg said that the lack of clarity from Damascus, "make it impossible to have confidence that its chemical weapons program has been irreversibly dismantled." Bylica delivered the damning statement on behalf of the EU on the opening day of the annual meeting of member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague. Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad rejected the claims, saying that only a few "technical elements" remained to be ironed out.

 


פרסום ראשון: 11.30.15, 14:53