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Russia flays UN report on Syria sarin attack

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MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday dismissed a report by a UN-led panel that blamed the Syrian government for a sarin attack on the town of Khan Sheikhun and said the use of the substance was part of a “theatrical performance” by rebels. A panel including diplomats and military officers presented Moscow’s version of events complete with diagrams and satellite imagery, saying the Syrian government did not carry the blame for the April attack which killed over 80 people.


“We believe that the report turned out to be superficial, unprofessional and amateurish,” said Mikhail Ulyanov, head of the foreign ministry’s security and disarmament department. “The mission did their research from a distance, that in itself is a scandal.”


At least 87 people died on April 4 this year when sarin nerve agent projectiles were fired into Khan Sheikhun, a town in the Idlib province of northwestern Syria.


A joint panel by the United Nations and the world’s chemical watchdog Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons concluded that the Syrian government was responsible, and that the air force had dropped a bomb on the town, releasing the deadly nerve agent. — AFP


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