In
UNSC,
Press
Statement on
Syria Chemical
Weapons
Proposed
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 21 --
Outside the Syria
chemical
weapons
session of
the UN
Security
Council
Wednesday
afternoon,
Inner City
Press learned
that inside
rather than
simple
elements to
the press, a
formal
Security
Council press
statement has
been proposed.
If
agreed by the
15 members, it
would call for
access by the
UN team on
the ground,
and for
humanitarian
assistance to
the victims.
Inner City
Press was
exclusively
shown the
draft.
More
specifically,
the draft
press
statement
welcomes that
the UN team is
in country....
underscores
concern of
reports of use
of chemical
weapons,
underscores
importance of
investigation
and says that
any use would
violate
international
law.
But
it does not
address the
point that the
UN
team, led by
Ake Sellstrom,
is there only
to find out if
chemical
weapons were
used, not WHO
used
them. We will
have more on
this.
While the UN
said that
Sellstrom and
his team would
not talk to
the media,
Sellstrom did,
to Swedish
news agency TT
(to a
journalist from
another
country he
replied that was
no possibility
of talking.)
UN Deputy
Secretary General
Jan Eliasson,
we note, is also
Swedish.
In the closed
door Security
Council went
the colleague
of UN Disarmament
chief Angela
Kane who
answered Inner
City Press, about the
flaws of the
evidence of
Russian state
TV journalist
Anastasia
Popova, on
this video.
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