Via AFP:
The world's chemical watchdog called Friday for Syria to "pick up the pace" in shipping out its chemical weapons stockpile after a key deadline was missed.
"The need for the process to pick up the pace is obvious," Director General Ahmet Uzumcu said in a statement after a meeting of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' (OPCW) executive council on Thursday in The Hague.
Sources said Thursday's meeting was divided between Western countries who wanted a strongly-worded approach and countries like Syria allies Russia and China, who wanted a more lenient approach to Dam...
