Syria Ready to Cooperate with UN Watchdog on Gas Attack Accusations
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Syria said on Thursday it was ready to cooperate with the global chemical weapons watchdog over accusations it had used poison gas against militant held areas.
A Syrian foreign ministry statement said Damascus was ready to cooperate with a team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons [OPCW] currently in Syria and looking into incidents Damascus blames on terror groups and their foreign operatives.
A joint investigation by the United Nations and the chemical weapons watchdog last month found that Daesh militants had used sulfur mustard gas, according to a report seen by Reuters.
The year-long UN and OPCW inquiry - unanimously authorized by the UN Security Council - focused on nine attacks in seven areas of Syria.
The results set the stage for a Security Council showdown between the five veto-wielding powers, likely pitting Russia and China against the United States, Britain and France over whether sanctions should be imposed after the inquiry.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday that one person had died as a result of the attack that caused dozens of cases of suffocation. The Syrian army denied the accusations.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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