UN chief hopes Syria’s presidency of top disarmament forum won’t have “negative impact”

    GENEVA, May 25, 2018 – After delivering a speech yesterday in Geneva on disarmament, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres expressed the hope that Syria’s presidency of the UN-backed Conference on Disarmament, starting on Monday, won’t have a “negative impact” on the global forum that produced the Chemical Weapons Convention. Translation of UN transcript from French-language interview: Journalist: It is difficult to convey to the public that a country accused in of using chemical weapons is in the same time heading the Conference on Disarmament, even…

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