France-led motion would strip Damascus of voting rights at global watchdog
People remove belongings from a damaged site after an air strike Sunday in the rebel-held besieged Al Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria on October 17, 2016. Reuters
Civil Defence members inspect a damaged site after an airstrike in the besieged rebel-held Al Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria on October 14, 2016. Reuters
A youth inspects a damaged site after an air strike in the besieged rebel-held Al Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria on October 14, 2016. Reuters
A general view taken with a drone shows damaged buildings in a rebel-held area of Aleppo, Syria, on October 13, 2016. Reuters
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Chemical weapons watchdog weighs Syria sanctions Tue 20th April 2021 | 05:10 PM
The Hague, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th Apr, 2021 ) :World powers urged the global chemical weapons watchdog on Tuesday to hit Syria with unprecedented sanctions for alleged toxic gas attacks and for failing to declare its arsenal.
Syria faces the loss of its rights and privileges at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) after a probe found it had carried out three attacks in 2017.
The regulator s 193 member states are expected to vote on Wednesday on a proposal by France, backed by 46 countries, that would include freezing Syria s voting rights at the Netherlands-based body.
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Professor Paul McKeigue of the University of Edinburgh (Channel 4)
Seeking to cover up the war crimes of Syria’s Assad regime, a group of UK academics worked with Russian diplomats in four missions from North America to Europe.
The academics, in the self-styled “Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media”, collaborated with the Russians as part of their denial of the regime’s sarin and chlorine attacks against Syria’s civilians.
One of the academics, Prof. Paul McKeigue of the University of Edinburgh, revealed the relationship in an e-mail exchange with a man whom he thought was a Russian spy.