Suspicions of possible undeclared Syrian chemical agents voiced at UN


  • World
  • Friday, 09 May 2014

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Western members of the U.N. Security Council on Thursday voiced concerns about ambiguities and discrepancies in Syria's original declaration of its poison gas arsenal that Damascus submitted last year to a global chemical arms watchdog, diplomats said.

Those worries surfaced during a closed-door meeting of the 15-member council with Sigrid Kaag, head of the joint mission of the United Nations and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) that is overseeing the destruction of Syria's toxic weapon stockpiles.

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