Syria: Obama postpones military option – to provide diplomacy a chance to resolve crisis

“We want to join the chemical weapons ban treaty. We will respect our commitments in relation to the treaty, including providing information on these weapons.”

Syria is one of only seven UN member states not already party to the 1993 “Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction.”

Signatories are supposed to destroy any chemical weapons under their control and to allow UN inspectors access to their sites.

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