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RFE/RL: Britain, France decry ‘stunt’ by Russia, Syria on Douma ‘witnesses’

Published April 26, 2018 at 7:39 pm

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Britain and France have denounced as a “stunt” and “masquerade” a move by Russia and Syria to produce Syrian witnesses to support claims that there was no chemical attack in the city of Douma earlier this month.

Russia and Syria on April 26 presented several unharmed people from Gouta, near Damascus, at the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition for Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.