Syria stripped of voting rights by chemical weapons watchdog after poisonous gas discovery - JURIST - News
April 22, 2021 12:32:40 pm Syria was stripped of its voting rights on Wednesday at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), after recent findings evidenced their use of poisonous gas throughout the nation’s civil war. A two-thirds majority of nations voted to strip Syria’s Bashar al Assad regime of its rights and privileges as a member of the organization, including the right to vote at OPCW conferences. The OPCW, as the monitoring body for the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, has 193 members, 87 of whom voted in favor of the suspension of Syria’s rights. Out of...
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