At UN, Syria Tries to Divert Chemical Weapons Focus Onto Israel

Hours after Tuesday’s deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria’s Idlib province, an Assad regime representative in New York said the Syrian government condemned the use of all weapons of mass destruction, and then tried to turn the attention onto Israel and other critics instead.

Speaking at the U.N. Disarmament Commission session, the delegate called chemical weapons use “intolerable and immoral” and pointed out that Syria is party to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

“Ironically,” he said, Syria’s efforts in support of a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction were being blocked by other nations, in their determination to preserve Israel’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

 

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