13/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - Damascus objects to use of frozen assets. On 12 February, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the EU not to use Syria's frozen assets to finance the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons. This call came two days after the EU decided to release Syrian state-owned funds for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) (see EUROPE 11017). According to a source from the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, quoted by Syrian Arab news...