Syria will allow UN inspectors to visit a site of chemical weapons attack
(VOVworld) - Iran's foreign minister said Saturday that Syria will allow UN inspectors to visit a site near Damascus where an alleged chemical weapons attack is said to have killed hundreds of people.
An alleged chemical weapons attack is said to have killed hundreds of people in Syria (photo: PressTV) |
Iran’s IRNA news agency quoted Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying that he had spoken by telephone with his Syrian counterpart, Walid Muallem. Muallem told him "the Syrian government will cooperate with the United Nations mission now in Syria to create the conditions for a visit to zones where terrorist groups have carried out attacks with chemical weapons."
The same day, Syrian national TV reported that the government troop discovered chemical weapons in underground tunnels of the rebels in Jobar on the outskirt of Damascus. Several soldiers were exposed to the chemical.
There has been so far no independent confirmation of what happened, and the United Nations and several world powers have been pressing for inspectors already in the country to go to the site and investigate.
In a telephone conversation on Saturday, US Presient Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron expressed their deep concern over the allegation that the Syrian government used chemical weapons targeting civilians. The White House said that Obama met with his top security advisors to discuss measures to deal with the information.