28 countries reject chemical weaponsBy The Manila Timeshome/News/World/28 countries reject chemical weaponsTwenty-eight countries strongly condemned the use of chemical weapons and commended the contribution made by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to freeing the world from that type of weapons of mass destruction at the fourth review conference of the chemical weapons convention held at the Hague, Nov. 30, 2018. We consider this topic fundamentally important regardless of the future of the INF Treaty. Furthermore, some provisions of the INF Treaty are insufficiently clear and may give cause for misinterpretation. The decisive factor here is the good faith and political will of the participating countries to keep the agreement viable. Ryabkov stressed that “Russia has consistently continued to ask the United States to provide the necessary specifics regarding its claims.

Source: Manila Times December 13, 2018 22:52 UTC