" UN report shows that Syria launched a chemical attack , say U.S. and UK

" UN report shows that Syria launched a chemical attack , say U.S. and UK
Leda Balbino - New York * | 16.09.2013 17:11 - Updated 16/09/2013 at 19:34

Ambassadors to the UN claim that type of rocket and quality of sarin confirm liability regime
The report by UN inspectors showed that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad , is responsible for neurological sarin gas attack on the outskirts of Damascus launched on August 21 , said the U.S. and the UK after the disclosure of the document in New York on Monday . In Paris, French Foreign Minister , Laurent Fabius , also said that the document proved the guilt of the Assad regime .
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Although the mission of inspectors have not been asked to verify who was responsible for the attack , the ambassadors of the U.S. and the UK at the UN said that the technical aspects of the report - type of rockets used in the attack , their careers and quality of sarin employee - prove that only the government would have the ability to launch such an attack on a large scale .
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Syrian activists inspect bodies of alleged victims of a chemical attack in the region of Ghouta region in the neighborhood of Duma in Damascus ( 21/8 )
"We only have information that the government, not the opposition , has the type of rocket used to launch the attack ," said U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power , recalling a U.S. intelligence report indicated previously reported that the rockets were fired from an area under government control .
" Defy logic to think that the opposition infiltrate an area of the system to launch an attack against itself ," he said at a news conference after a meeting of the Security Council . " The Syrian regime has sarin , while there is evidence that the opposition has ," he added .
According to the U.S. government , the attack of August 21 has left more than 1400 dead , including hundreds of children . But the intelligence agencies of France and the UK , as well as the organization Doctors Without Borders , point to a much smaller number of deaths .
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" Speaking previously Samantha Power, the UK ambassador to the UN , Lyall Grant , made ​​similar statements . " There was a handmade use of chemical weapons , "he said . According to the British diplomat , the inspectors ' report shows that the amount of sarin employed in the attack on 21 was 35 times higher than that used in an attack on the Tokyo subway in Japan in 1995 .
Worst attack in 25 years
In his remarks , U.S. Ambassador corroborated this information , emphasizing the quality of sarin used in the Syrian attack was higher than the program of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (1979-2003) during the Iran-Iraq war ( 1980-1988 ) .
In conference following inform the Security Council about the information in the report , the Secretary-General , Ban Ki - moon said the attack on 21 represents the most significant confirmed use of chemical weapons against civilians from attack by Saddam against Iraqi Kurds in Halabja in 1988.
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The principal organ of the UN, the head of the organization said that tests on blood samples taken from 34 of 36 patients with signs of poisoning have proven exposure to sarin . According to Ban Ki -moon , " 85 % of the blood samples tested positive for sarin gas " , with the victims having shown clear symptoms associated with this agent , including loss of consciousness , shortness of breath , blurred vision , eye inflammation , vomiting and convulsions .
The report was issued after the U.S. and Russia have reached on Saturday after days of negotiations in Geneva , according to a plan put Syrian chemical weapons under international control . The document states that Assad provides an inventory of its chemical arsenal by the end of this week and delivered all the components of your program by mid next year. The ultimate goal is to destroy chemical weapons in Syria .
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The plan according suspended indefinitely , until last month , appeared to be the possibility of an imminent attack by the U.S. against Syria in retaliation to chemical attack . Syria, which denies the charge and blames the antigovernment rebels for the attack , had its ally Russia to avoid being the target of a military operation outside.
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The U.S. , however, retain the warning that the military option remains on the table if diplomacy fails with the failure of the plan by Syria . " The threat of force is real ," warned the American Secretary of State , John Kerry , on Sunday in Jerusalem .
* Reporter travels as a Fellow of the Dag Hammarskjöld Fellowship , UN
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