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WORLD_ SYRIA_ Cotton not surprised Syria reportedly kept chemical weapons

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May 13, 2015, 01:40 pm

Cotton not surprised Syria reportedly kept chemical weapons By Jordain Carney



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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said Wednesday that he is “appalled” but not surprised over reports that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad didn’t turn over all of his chemical weapons as part of a 2013 international agreement.

“I am appalled by these reports that the Syrian regime has retained stocks of chemical weapons, but I cannot say I am surprised,” he said. “Anyone with eyes to see knew the message President Obama had sent. When he flinched in 2013 in the face of Assad's brazen and brutal use of sarin gas on civilians, it only emboldened Assad to continue testing U.S. resolve.”

The Arkansas Republican was referring to Obama’s consideration of airstrikes against Assad in 2013 and the president’s ultimate decision not to launch a military intervention. Instead, as part of an international agreement spearheaded by the United States and Russia, Assad’s regime agreed to disclose all of his chemical weapons stockpiles and allow them to be destroyed.

Two administration officials, however, told Bloomberg that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) told the administration that it has found “traces of two banned chemical weapons” during inspections in Syria.

OPCW inspectors also found traces of sarin and a separate nerve gas at a site in Syria that wasn’t previously disclosed as part of the international agreement, according to Reuters.

Administration officials, as well as outside experts, have repeatedly voiced skepticism about whether or not Syria turned over all of its chemicals as part of the 2013 deal.

Cotton tied the reports on Syria to the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran. He said lawmakers should take away two lessons from the situation in Syria: That America’s international standing “must be good and it must be credible” and that the United States “cannot trust tyrannical regimes to abide by agreements unless we force the do so.”

He said that a final nuclear agreement with Iran must include “stringent conditions,” “the most intrusive verification procedures” and block Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

“The framework agreement President Obama has reached with Iran meets none of those standards,” he said. “Moreover, the administration’s concealment of Syria’s cheating surely foreshadows how it will look the other way when Iran cheats on any final deal.”

He added that while Syrians would be affected if Assad violated the 2013 agreement, "Iran's cheating on a nuclear agreement in the future could be catastrophic for the United States and the world at large.”


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