UN: Assad has signed chemical weapons decree

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President Bashar al-Assad has signed a decree stating that Syria will accede to international law on the prohibition of chemical weapons, the United Nations said.

In a statement late on Thursday, the spokesman for the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said: "The secretary-general has today received a letter from the government of Syria, informing him that President Assad has signed the legislative decree providing for the accession of Syria to the Convention ... on chemical weapons of 1992.

"In their letter, the Syrian authorities have expressed their commitment to observe the obligations entailed by the convention even before its entry into force for Syria."

The statement added that the secretary general "hopes that the current talks in Geneva will lead to speedy agreement on a way forward which will be endorsed and assisted by the international community", a reference to discussions between Russia and the United States in the Swiss City.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/09/201391221295743696.html

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[BootinUp]

1. He would have done it eventually anyways

[MADem]

2. Well, that's a small bit of good news, then!

Hopefully they won't try to play a "too clever by half" game of Hide The Canisters.

Pootie can keep his MIC cranking out other weapons for his Bashing Buddy to use on the Syrian population that prays the 'wrong' way to suit him. He can continue to use Bashir's port for his Mediterranean Naval ambitions....for now, anyway.