According to The New York Times, last month the Obama Administration showed its frustration toward Russia’s opposition towards America’s military action. Two weeks ago, the U.S. and Russia finally made an agreement to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons, but Russia declared its intention was not to kill Syrian people.
Last week the permanent members of the Security Council — United States, Russia, Britain, France and China — agreed on requiring Syria to abandon its chemical weapons, however, there will be no further punishments if Syria cannot obey.
Syria’s chemical weapons appeared recently, but its civil war had been active for years and killed more than 100,000 people.
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Obama is trying to distract the citizens focused on his economic improvement to show America’s military power to the world.
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Syria admitted to the possession of chemical weapons to avoid suspicions from other countries.
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The attempt to balance Syria’s civil war was to use military force.
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The Vietnam and Iraq wars lost government credits. No wonder people are skeptical toward international matters.
Syria's Chemical Weapons: Two Observations
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in the document its teams had inspected 21 out of 23 chemical weapons sites across the country. The other two were too dangerous to inspect but the chemical equipment had already been moved to other sites which experts had visited, it said.
"The OPCW is satisfied it has verified, and seen destroyed, all declared critical production/mixing/filling equipment from all 23 sites," the document said.
Under a Russian-American brokered deal, Damascus agreed to destroy all its chemical weapons after Washington threatened to use force in response to the killing of hundreds of people in a sarin attack on the outskirts of Damascus on Aug. 21.
The United States and its allies blamed Assad's forces for the attack and several earlier incidents. The Syrian president has rejected the charge, blaming rebel brigades.
Under the disarmament timetable, Syria was due to render unusable all production and chemical weapons filling facilities by Nov. 1 - a target it has now met. By mid-2014 it must have destroyed its entire stockpile of chemical weapons.
Inspectors had until Friday to visit all of Syria's chemical sites and destroy all production and filling equipment in accordance with a timeline laid down by the Hague-based OPCW and backed by a UN Security Council resolution passed last month.
A first monthly report of the inspectors, covering their work on the ground since October 1, has been sent to the UN Security Council by UN chief Ban Ki-moon.
The OPCW's Executive Council will use the Syrian declaration to decide by November 15 on "destruction milestones" for Syria's arsenal.
Syria has also sent in a declaration of its chemical weapons activities and facilities, meeting its obligations as a new state party to the Chemical Weapons Convention.