BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government has asked federal prosecutors to examine whether German firms broke the law by exporting equipment to Syria during the 1980s and early 1990s that may have helped the country to develop chemical weapons.
An economy ministry spokesman said on Wednesday that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had provided a list of firms to Germany based on information supplied to it by Syria.
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