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.