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Published 1/14/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - Iraq has given the United Nations its ratification of the treaty banning chemical weapons, a move welcomed by the U.N. chief as a demonstration of the country's commitment to disarmament and nonproliferation.
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