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Saudi Arabia Elected to OPCW Executive Council

The OPCW headquarters in the Netherlands. (AP)
The OPCW headquarters in the Netherlands. (AP)
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Saudi Arabia Elected to OPCW Executive Council

The OPCW headquarters in the Netherlands. (AP)
The OPCW headquarters in the Netherlands. (AP)

Saudi Arabia was elected to the executive council of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, announced Saudi Ambassador to the Netherlands Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Abu Himaidan according to the Saudi Press Agency Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia will be part of the council for the 2019-21 term.

The election, the ambassador said, took place at the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, to bolster and introduce the role of the Kingdom in banning chemical weapons.

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Emir of Qatar Visits Damascus

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. (KUNA)
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. (KUNA)
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Emir of Qatar Visits Damascus

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. (KUNA)
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. (KUNA)

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani visits Damascus on Thursday, Qatar's Al Jazeera reported, as Syria's new interim government begins a political transition after the opposition factions ousted the Assad regime last year.

Qatar's foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment.

In January, a US official and a senior diplomat said Qatar planned to help finance a sharp increase in public sector wages pledged by Syria's new government.

Qatar had been lobbying Washington to issue a sanctions exemption for Syria allowing it to provide funding through official channels, the US official and diplomat said.