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France to launch international group targeting toxic gas attacks

UNITED NATIONS/PARIS – France has asked some 30 countries to work together to preserve evidence of chemical weapons attacks and impose sanctions on those responsible after Russia ended an international inquiry into who is to blame for using toxic gas in Syria.

 

France will host a meeting on Tuesday in Paris to launch the initiative, French UN Ambassador Francois Delattre told a United Nations Security Council meeting on nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction on Thursday.

 

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due to attend, the State Department said.

 

The group will work together "collecting, conserving, exchanging and using ... all the mechanisms at our disposal to name the guilty parties and impose the necessary sanctions on them," according to the invitation sent to states and seen by Reuters.

 


פרסום ראשון: 01.18.18, 22:26