France 'concerned' By Syria Chemical Attack Reports
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published August 11, 2016 | 11:26 PM
PARIS, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 11th August, 2016) : France on Thursday expressed alarm at reports of a deadly chemical attack Wednesday in the Syrian battleground city of Aleppo. Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a statement he was "concerned by reports of a new chemical attack...
that is said to have claimed four lives people and left dozens injured." He added: "I strongly condemn all attacks on the civilian population, particularly those in which chemical weapons are used." Asked about the reported attack Thursday during a news conference in Geneva, the UN envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said it was not in his remit to verify such reports but that "there is a lot of evidence that it actually did take place". "If it did take place, it is a war crime and as such it would require everyone.
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to address it immediately," he added. In the past two years there have been numerous allegations of chemical weapons being used against civilians, both by President Bashar al-Assad's regime and the rebels trying to oust him. The United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are due to report later this month on their investigation into nine chemical weapons attacks in 2014 and 2015. Ayrault said he would be "particularly attentive" to their findings. In January, the OPCW announced that all of Syria's declared chemical arms stockpile had been completely destroyed. But concerns remain that undeclared amounts of sarin gas and other chemical weapons are still being used.
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