OPCW to investigate Syria chlorine attack
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Channel: Al Jazeera English · 2014 · News & Politics
The global chemical weapons watchdog overseeing the destruction of Syria's toxic stockpile will send a fact-finding mission to Syria to investigate allegations by rebels and activists of chlorine gas attacks, the organisation has said. The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said President Bashar al-Assad's government had agreed to accept the mission and had promised to provide security in areas under its control. Al Jazeera's Cath Turner reports from the United Nations in New York.
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