Date: Sep 30, 2019 Source: The Daily Star France: Light must be shed on use of chemical weapons in Syria Reuters PARIS: The French Foreign Ministry said all light must be shed on any use of chemical weapons in Syria, and that it had been “worried to learn” of information from the United States about the use of such weapons in Syria in May. “All light must be shed on the subject of the possible use of chemical weapons. We have full confidence in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons [OPCW],” the French Foreign Ministry said Friday. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday the United States had concluded that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government used chlorine as a chemical weapon during a battle in May with insurgents in Idlib. “The United States will not allow these attacks to go unchallenged nor will we tolerate those who choose to conceal these atrocities,” Pompeo told reporters in New York, where he was taking part in the U.N. General Assembly.