Inspectors Now Allowed at Syria Chemical Attack Site After Russian Delays

Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn

OPCW Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü said the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) had made a decision to carry out reconnaissance at two sites in the town of Douma before the inspectors would visit them.

One source told Reuters the advance team had "encountered a security issue" during the visit to Douma, including gunfire which led to the delay.

Syria and Russian Federation have denied any responsibility for the attack.

Syrian state media say rebels in a town northeast of Damascus are handing over their weapons as part of an agreement reached with the Syrian government.

A report on SANA that Syrian air defences had shot down missiles over Homs province overnight raised fears, but the agency later retracted the report.

Dujarric told reporters at United Nations headquarters in NY that "there is still a lot of volatility in the area".

What is happening in Syria?

The alleged attack prompted coordinated strikes from the U.S, Britain and France at Syria in retaliation.

Western states have accused the Syrian government of an April 7 chemical attack in Douma, near Damascus, where the World Health Organization said 43 people who died suffered "symptoms consistent with exposure to highly toxic chemicals".

Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) travelled to Syria last week to inspect the site, but have yet to gain access to Douma, which is now under government control after the rebels withdrew.

Rubble fills a street in Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria.

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The tripartite strikes delayed a visit by OPCW experts to the site of the alleged chemical attack.

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is firing back against a Trump administration official who said she was suffering from "momentary confusion" when she announced new sanctions against Russian Federation were imminent, saying, "With all due respect, I don't get confused".

The US, UK and France say that, based their own intelligence, they are confident chlorine and possibly a nerve agent were used.

"We were brought in with a government escort and shown the areas where the chemical attack allegedly happened and we got to speak with residents in the area.

No Russian servicemen were at the site of the incident".

Assad has benefited from Russian air power since 2015 to regain large swathes of Syria.

Two bombs filled with chemicals were reportedly dropped several hours apart on the town.

"We have a set of sanctions, and additional sanctions are under consideration, but have not been determined", said Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council.

"We have not done this because [US] President [Donald] Trump asked us to do so", she told parliament.

As his speech came to a close, the first reports of explosions in Damascus began to emerge.

"Do we sit back, do we defend (human) rights by saying, 'Rights are for us, principles are for us, and realities are for others?' No, no!" the French leader said. Russia's military said yesterday it had uncovered a chemical weapons stockpile left behind by the rebels in Douma. The UN-mandated Independent International Commission on Syria has documented more than 30 chemical attacks in Syria between 2013 and the end of 2017 - and says at least 25 of them were carried out by the Syrian military.

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