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UN resolution orders Syria chemical arms destroyed
[Al Ahram] The UN Security Council unanimously passed a landmark resolution Friday ordering the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons and condemning a murderous poison gas attack in Damascus.The major powers overcame a prolonged deadlock to approve the first council resolution on the conflict, which is now 30 months old with more than 100,000 dead. UN leader  the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... , who called the resolution "the first hopeful news on Syria in a long time," said he hopes to convene a peace conference in mid-November. Resolution 2118, the result of bruising negotiations between the United States and Russia, gives international binding force to a plan drawn up by the two to eliminate  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's chemical arms. The plan calls for Syria's estimated 1,000 tonnes of chemical weapons to be put under international control by mid-2014. International experts are expected to start work in Syria to meet the tight deadline next week. Britannia and China offered to finance to the disarmament operation. Posted by: Fred 2013-09-29 |
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