ADVERTISEMENTRussia and Syria have denied that chemical weapons were used at all and said their own investigators had been to the area and found no trace of them. Chlorine has legitimate industrial and other civilian uses, so it is not banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention. Despite the strikes, the chemical weapons watchdog agency said its experts would go ahead with their mission. The agreement only covered declared chemical weapons. “And they were the result of the regime and Russia’s failure to live up to their international commitments to remove all chemical weapons from Syria.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 14, 2018 18:11 UTC