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UN inspectors visiting the site in Damascus for investigating suspected chemical weapons attacks in Syria’s capital during the previous week’s disputed chemical weapons attack came under fire from unidentified snipers in Syria on Monday.
The UN secretary-general’s office has told, the leading vehicle in the convoy “was deliberately shot at multiple times” in a buffer zone between government-controlled and rebel-held areas of the Syrian capital. Afterwards, and the team returned to a checkpoint, where a replacement vehicle was found.
The Syrian government blamed rebel gunmen – the alleged “terrorists” for the attack, which damaged the lead vehicle in the UN chemical weapons inspection convoy. However, no casualties were reported after the incident.
UN inspectors’ team left central Damascus on Monday morning to inspect sites of the alleged attacks on the outskirts of the Syrian capital but Britain and the U.S. believe that access has been granted too late to find some convincing evidence.
According to a doctor in the rebel-held town of Mouadimiya, a team of 20 UN chemical weapons experts have now began analyzing the victims of the suspected chemical attacks last week.
Germany has also joined, on Monday, the list of countries insisting to take some early action to be taken against Syria with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert saying that if the use of chemical weapons was confirmed by UN expert team “it must be punished”.
On Monday, U.K. foreign secretary, William Hague has said that Britain may take military action against Syria without a UN resolution and alleged President Bashar al-Assad responsible for chemical attacks which killed hundreds of people, saying there was “no other plausible explanation”.
Mr. Hague has said: “Is it possible to respond to chemical weapons without complete unity on the UN Security Council? I would argue yes it is, otherwise it might be impossible to respond to such outrages, such crimes, and I don’t think that’s an acceptable situation.”
However, Mr. Hague’s Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov has said later on Monday that any military intervention in Syria without a mandate from the UN would be a grave violation of international law.
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