EU Members Agree to Strengthen WMD Language in Syrian Trade Agreement

European Union members agreed yesterday to include language calling on Syria to renounce weapons of mass destruction in a trade association agreement between the EU and Damascus, according to Agence France-Presse (see GSN, May 17).

The new language will be presented to Syria “in the next few weeks,” a diplomatic source in Brussels said. “The language on what efforts Syria should make against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction has been hardened up,” the source said (Agence France-Presse, May 26).

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