00:40 EDT, 6 January 2021
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Syria and close ally Russia clashed with the U.S. and other nations Tuesday over a Western initiative to suspend Syria´s voting rights in the global chemical weapons watchdog for failing to provide details of three chemical attacks in 2017 that investigators blamed on President Bashar Assad´s government.
The confrontation in the U.N. Security Council foreshadowed a showdown when the 193 member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons meet in The Hague, Netherlands, in April to consider a French-drafted measure, on behalf of 46 countries, to suspend Syria´s rights and privileges in the body.
Russia and Western nations clash over Syria chemical weapons sanctions
The French proposal was a response to Syria s failure to meet a 90-day deadline set in July by the OPCW s executive council for Damascus to declare the nerve agent sarin and chlorine.
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UNITED NATIONS: Syria and close ally Russia clashed with the US and other nations Tuesday over a Western initiative to suspend Syria s voting rights in the global chemical weapons watchdog for failing to provide details of three chemical attacks in 2017 that investigators blamed on President Bashar Assad s government.
The confrontation in the UN Security Council foreshadowed a showdown when the 193 member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons meet in The Hague, Netherlands, in April to consider a French-drafted measure, on behalf of 46 countries, to suspend Syria s rights and privileges in the body.
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