Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that his country will not allow a United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing military intervention in Syria. The Syrian government is being targeted for imperialist regime change., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Lavrov: Russia handed UN all available documents on investigation of Sarin gas use in Syria
Jul 10, 2013
Moscow, (SANA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday said that the documents and reported submitted by Moscow to the UN on the use of chemical weapons in Syria will answer many questions, and that the use of chemical weapons is a serious issue that shouldn't be used as an excuse for escalation, achieving geopolitical goals or political maneuvering.
In a press conference with Belarusian counterpart Vladimir Makei, Lavrov said that the results of Russia's investigations into the use of chemical weapons in Syria show that the Sarin gas shells used in Khan al-Asal area near Aleppo in March were manufactured in areas controlled by opposition groups.
Lavrov noted that US representatives weren't convinced about these results, and that Russia sent a package containing 800 pages of documents supplemented with photographs, coordinates and detailed reports of the procedures and results of the investigation.
He affirmed that the samples acquired by Russia were not tampered with before arriving at the labs.
Lavrov noted that the affirmations issued by the British and the French on having testimonies of the Syrian government using chemical weapons have evidential basis and no indication of time and place, nor was it confirmed that the samples they tested were acquired by those who conducted the test as said samples were handed over from one person to another, with some of the samples coming from journalists, all of which contradicts the principles of investigating such issues.
He said that Moscow doesn't oppose publishing the results of its investigations, rejecting any questioning of them and asserting that Russian experts gathered samples personally at the site of the attack and tested them in a lab licensed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), with the results concluding that the shells and Sarin gas which was in them contained materials showing they were homemade.
Lavrov said that other information acquired by Moscow indicates that the shells and the gas were manufactured in February in an area in Syria which was under the control of opposition groups at the time.
He asserted that Russia guarantees the precision of the investigation and that the experts didn't let the acquired samples out of their sight for a single moment until the samples reached the labs.
Lavrov said that Russia, contrary to its western partners, doesn't conceal its deductions, and that Russia sees no reason why the results of its investigations shouldn't be made public as they are convincing and should answer many questions.
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Russia presents evidence on use of chemical weapons by opposition in Khan al-Asal
Jul 09, 2013
Moscow, (SANA)-Russia has presented evidence to the UN secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on the use of chemical weapons by "the Syrian opposition" in Aleppo, Russia's permanent envoy to the UN Vitaly Churkin said.
"I have submitted to the UN chief the results of analyzing samples taken by Russian experts at the site where the shell was fallen in Khan al-Asal... I want to stress that we have got the samples directly, not through a third party," Russia Today site quoted Churkin as saying to journalists on Tuesday.
He added that the samples were analyzed in a Russian laboratory, officially approved by the Organization for Prohibiting the Chemical Weapons, and the outcome proved that on March 19th, 2013, the Syrian opposition launched non-guided shells of "Bashaer 3" on Khan al-Asal area which is controlled by the Syrian army.
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