{"id":357286,"date":"2018-04-18T07:23:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T06:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chemical-weapons-inspectors-barred-from-douma-site\/"},"modified":"2018-04-18T07:23:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T06:23:34","slug":"chemical-weapons-inspectors-barred-from-douma-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chemical-weapons-inspectors-barred-from-douma-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Weapons Inspectors Barred from Douma Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Russia\u00a0and the Syrian regime have been accused by western diplomats of denying chemical weapons inspectors access to sites in the town of Douma, where an attack killed dozens and prompted US-led missile strikes over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Russia and\u00a0Syria\u00a0had cited \u201cpending security issues\u201d before inspectors could deploy to the town outside Damascus, said Ahmet \u00dcz\u00fcmc\u00fc, the director general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), at a meeting of its executive council.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian authorities were offering 22 people to interview as witnesses instead, he said, adding that he hoped \u201call necessary arrangements will be made \u2026 to allow the team to deploy to Douma as soon as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Trump administration delayed action on sanctions against Russians suspected of helping Syria\u2019s chemical weapons programme, contradicting remarks on Sunday by the US envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley.<\/p>\n<p>Haley had said in a television interview that sanctions would be \u201ccoming down\u201d on Monday. But the White House spokeswoman, Sarah Sanders, said on Monday that \u201ca decision will be made in the near future. We\u2019ll keep you guys posted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Washington Post reported\u00a0that Trump had intervened personally to delay the implementation of sanctions, citing unnamed sources as saying the president \u201cwas upset the sanctions were being officially rolled out because he was not yet comfortable executing them\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And a senior administration source told Reuters that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/syria-chemical-weapons-inspectors-barred-from-douma-site\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u00a0and the Syrian regime have been accused by western diplomats of denying chemical weapons inspectors access to sites in the town of Douma, where an attack killed dozens and prompted US-led missile strikes over the weekend. Russia and\u00a0Syria\u00a0had cited \u201cpending security issues\u201d before inspectors could deploy to the town outside Damascus, said Ahmet \u00dcz\u00fcmc\u00fc, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-357286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}