Chemical weapons watchdog OPCW strips Syria s rights over attacks
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Last Updated: Apr 21, 2021, 05:04 PM IST
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The measures are in response to an OPCW investigation last year that found the Syrian air force had used the nerve agent sarin and chlorine gas in three attacks on the village of Lataminah in 2017.
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This file handout image released by the Syrian opposition s Shaam News Network shows smoke above buildings following what Syrian rebels claim to be a toxic gas attack by pro-government forces in eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21, 2013
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The global chemical weapons watchdog voted Wednesday to take the unprecedented step of stripping Syria of its rights at the organisation after a probe blamed Damascus for poison gas attacks.
States suspend Syria s OPCW rights over chemical attacks
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press April 21, 2021 11:55am Text size Copy shortlink:
THE HAGUE, Netherlands In an unprecedented vote Wednesday, member states of the global chemical weapons watchdog suspended Syria s voting rights at the organization as a punishment for the repeated use of toxic gas by Damascus.
The vote, which required a two-thirds majority to pass, marked the first time a member state of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has been hit with such a sanction.
A group of 46 nations called for the step on Tuesday at the organization s annual meeting of member states. Behind the scenes diplomatic efforts to
Chemical weapons watchdog voted on Wednesday after Bashar al-Assad's government found guilty of repeatedly using chemical weapons during 10-year civil war
Syria stripped of voting rights by chemical weapons watchdog
Syria has been stripped of its voting rights at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), after the UN body repeatedly found it to have used chemical weapons in its civil war.
Bashar al-Assad s regime was found to have used chemical weapons during the civil war, though it accused rebel forces of the same actions
Syria was stripped of its voting rights at the global chemical weapons watchdog by member states on Wednesday. The largely symbolic motion was a result of the watchdog s findings that Syrian forces repeatedly used poison gas during the war in the country.