Samantha Power: To Make It Clear to the World, Chlorine Is a Chemical Weapon

‘To make it very clear to the world that just because chlorine is a household product doesn’t make it not a chemical weapon when it is put in a barrel bomb and dropped on civilians’

Samantha Power: Make it Clear to the World that Chlorine is a Chemical Weapon (The Washington Free Beacon)

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said the UN has taken actions to make it clear to the world that just because chlorine is a common household product does not mean it cannot be used as a chemical weapon.

Two years ago, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed to let UN weapon inspectors dismantle Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons.  Last month, it was reported Assad was caught again with chemical weapons.

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