Author Topic: Obama administration supports compromise on Assad chemical weapons plants  (Read 409 times)

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/11/obama-administration-supports-compromise-on-assad-chemical-weapons-plants/?intcmp=latestnews

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The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad is still holding onto at least 12 chemical weapons production facilities it was supposed to destroy by June 30, and the Obama administration is supporting a proposal  to obliterate initially only seven of them in the interests of a breakthrough deal.

The remaining five, apparently all underground facilities, must be dismantled, but the compromise would allow further negotiation over how that would take place, and how the destruction would be verified.

The U.S. position, hedged with stern warnings to the Syrians, was revealed this week in remarks by Robert Mikulak, the top American diplomat at a meeting of the executive council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.