"The UK pushed hard to secure an investigation and we call on the OPCW to carry out its mandate with urgency," Hague said in a statement.
"Time is of the essence in establishing the full facts. The mission must be given full access to all sites and be allowed to carry out its investigation without any interference or delay."
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced Tuesday it is sending a fact-finding mission to Syria to probe allegations that the Syrian forces had used industrial chemicals on civilians.
- For its part, Damascus accepted the OPCW request.
The OPCW and the United Nations are already destroying Syria's chemical weapons as part of a Russian-US disarmament deal agreed last August.
[almanar.com.lb]
30/4/14
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The Telegraph reported on Wednesday that President Bashar al-Assad's regime was still using chemical weapons against Syria's civilian population....
ReplyDeleteThe British newspaper based its report on independent testing it said was conducted exclusively for The Telegraph.
Soil samples from the sites of recent alleged attacks were "collected by trained individuals known to this news organisation and analysed by a chemical warfare expert," The Telegraph reported.
British chemical weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon said, "We have unequivocally proved that the regime has used chlorine and ammonia against its own civilians in the last two to three weeks."..............http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/syria/140430/telegraph-unequivocal-proof-assad-regime-chlorine-attacks