You couldn't make it up
So is this is a public relations disaster for the United Nations? A sign the body is dysfunctional? UN officials have been wearily pointing out that the rotating presidency system was devised by member states, primarily to prevent more powerful countries constantly jockeying for position.
Syria takes over from Switzerland simply because it follows Switzerland in the alphabetical list of member states.
Zimbabwe has a while to wait.
Apparently it's a 4 week tenure so Syria's ability to bomb or gas the other members of the Conference is limited.
“Having the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad preside over global chemical and nuclear weapons disarmament will be like putting a serial rapist in charge of a women’s shelter,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of United Nations Watch, the Geneva based non-governmental organization. The activist group announced that it intends to hold protest events outside the UN hall featuring Syrian victims of their government’s chemical weapons attacks.
https://www.unwatch.org/syria-chair-un- ... s-eu-walk/
