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Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Chemical watchdog okayed to assign blame in attacks
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleMember nations of the global chemical weapons watchdog have voted to give the organization the authority to apportion blame for attacks, expanding its powers.
The vote got the necessary two-thirds majority on Wednesday during a meeting at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which so far lacked the ability to say who was responsible when there was a chemical attack.
The vote came on a proposal from Britain. British representative Peter Wilson said it had 30 co-sponsors and passage will allow OPCW “not just to say when chemical weapons are used, but by whom.”
The vote came at the end of a diplomatic standoff at the two-day meeting between Britain and its key Western allies on one side, and Russia and Syria on the other.
— AP
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