Syria will not allow weapons inspections: Shara

CAIRO (AFP) Apr 17, 2003
Syria will allow no inspections of its military arsenal or its territory to refute US accusations that it possesses chemical weapons, Foreign Minister Faruq al-Shara said here Thursday.

Damascus "will only contribute, with its (Arab) brothers and the countries of the whole world to transforming the Middle East into a region devoid of all weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological or nuclear," Shara said after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

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