{"id":122803,"date":"2025-03-05T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=122803"},"modified":"2025-03-05T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T09:12:12","slug":"syrias-fm-attends-opcw-executive-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/122803\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria\u2019s FM attends OPCW executive council meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) \u2013<\/strong> Syrian Foreign Minister in the caretaker government, Asaad al-Shaibani, announced on Wednesday his participation in a meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a post on X Platform (formerly Twitter), al-Shaibani stated, \u201cToday, for the first time in Syria&#8217;s history, I am attending the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignright is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today, for the first time in Syria&#39;s history, I am attending the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague. 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