... attention and the highest political profile. They are widely believed to constitute the most evident and the most dangerous threat not only to individual countries and societies, but also to the human species itself and to the life on the Earth at large.
Chemical weapons (CWs) are an elder brother to nuclear weapons. Great powers started working on the former already in the XIX century, and the international law prohibits their use since 1899 (the first Hague Convention on the conduct of warfare). This ...
... September 2013 after the UN investigation was complete, did not contain any confirmations that Syrian regime was responsible for the attack.
Back in 2013 Russia and the U.S. came up with the delicate plan which made Syria to join OPCW and get rid of its chemical weapons stockpiles. By 2016 this mission was accomplished, although accusations of Syrian government using chemical weapons are still here.
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... approaches, which is the key for the international community.
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No one country can solve problems which are becoming transborder, transnational, common threats and challenges.
President Obama spoke about enforcement of the Syrian chemical weapons agreement that you and Secretary Kerry came up with. Where do you think the U.N.Security Council resolution will end up? Do you see some enforcement mechanism being built into the resolution?
The chemical weapons problem in Syria is first ...
... force for non-compliance, it could be used by Syria’s bloody dictator, Bashar al-Assad, to deceive the global community and hold on to his gases nonetheless.
When Russian officials announced their plan for the Syrian government to hand over its chemical weapons stockpiles to the UN for destruction, thus averting an American punitive strike, everybody agreed that it had to be given a chance. Hailed by Russia’s press as a “diplomatic coup”, it did seem a comfortable solution ...
... from its relatively academic style and its thematic focus in order to brainstorm and share some thoughts on the broader picture of what is happening in the geopolitical arena of the region. Dangerous Double Standards Bashar al-Assad has reportedly used chemical weapons to attack, essentially, his own people. The first, logically obvious question is why would Assad essentially commit suicide? Why would he do the one thing that was sure to infuriate his enemies, undermine the diplomatic positions of his ...
