Chemical weapons regulator says Syria requests assistance
- September 13, 2013, 10:46 pm
- World News
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AMSTERDAM, Sept 13 (APP/Reuters) - The Organisation for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said on Friday that
Syria's deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, had contacted it
with a request for technical assistance.
Syria became a full member of the global anti-chemical
weapons treaty on Thursday, the country's U.N. envoy said, a
move that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had
promised as part of a Russian plan to avoid U.S. strikes.
