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On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Bukan Pedanda <bukan.peda...@yahoo.com>wrote: > ** > > > > Kayaknya senjata racun udah pasti dipakai, yang jadi pertanyaan sekarang > adalah: racun apa yang dipakai... > > > UN seeks clarity on Syria gas attack claim > > UN Security Council has called for "prompt investigation" of allegations > of chemical weapons use outside Syrian capital. > Last Modified: 21 Aug 2013 22:48 > > An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council has called for > a prompt investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack outside the > Syrian capital, Damascus. > > Syria's opposition accused the government on Wednesday of using chemical > arms to strike rebel-held areas in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, killing > hundreds of people. > "There is a strong concern among council members about the allegations and > a general sense that there must be clarity on what happened and the > situation must be followed closely," Argentina's UN ambassador, Maria > Cristina Perceval, told reporters after a two-hour, closed-door emergency > meeting of the council. > > She added that council members - who were briefed by Deputy-Secretary > General Jan Eliasson - "welcomed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's > determination to ensure a thorough, impartial and prompt investigation". > > Al Jazeera's John Terrett has more on the outcome of the UN emergency > meeting in New York > UN deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said earlier that the > secretary-general was "shocked" at Wednesday's alleged use of chemical > weapons. > > The alleged attack coincided with the visit to Syria by a 20-member UN > chemical weapons team, which only has a mandate to investigate three > previous allegations of chemical weapons use. > > Al Jazeera's John Terrett, reporting from New York, described the > statement released by the Council as "very vague, bland and tepid". > > "The Security Council is hobbled on issue of Syria, they can't agree on > anything," our correspondent said. > > Perceval, whose country is presiding over the Council for the month of > August, said there was a "strong call for a cessation of hostilities and > for a ceasefire". > > The United States, Britain and France are among around 35 countries that > called for chief UN investigator Ake Sellstrom, whose team is currently in > Syria, to investigate the incident as soon as possible. > > UN diplomats, however, said Russia and China opposed language that would > have demanded a UN probe. > > 'Totally unacceptable' > > Videos distributed by activists, which could not be independently > verified, showed medics attending to asphyxiating children and hospitals > being overwhelmed. More footage showed dozens of people laid out on the > ground, with no visible wounds or trauma. > > There have been conflicting reports on the death toll. The Syrian > Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based watchdog group, said that the > attack killed at least 100 people. > > However, Salim Idriss, the military chief of the Free Syrian Army, told Al > Jazeera that at least 1,600 were killed and hundreds more injured. > > The Syrian National Coalition's George Sabra said that more than 1,300 > people had been killed in what he described as a "coup de grace that kills > all hopes for a political solution in Syria". > > "The Syrian regime is mocking the UN and the great powers when it strikes > targets near Damascus, while the [UN weapons inspectors] are just a few > steps away," he said. > > The Syrian armed forces strongly denied the usage of chemical weapons, and > state television said the accusations were fabricated to distract the UN > investigators. > > The UN said its chief chemical weapons inspector Ake Sellstrom was in > discussions with the Syrian government over the alleged attack. > > The Security Council met after several Western and regional powers called > for the UN team to be dispatched to the scene. > > The European Union condemned the suspected use of chemical weapons as > "totally unacceptable". > > "We are awaiting further information about this but, if verified, this > would be a shocking escalation of the use of chemical weapons in Syria. We > are determined the people responsible will one day be held to account," > said British Foreign Secretary William Hague. > Activist networks reported death tolls in the hundreds, but these could > not be independently confirmed [Reuters] > > In Cairo, the Arab League also urged the UN inspectors to visit the site > of the alleged attack immediately. > > Ralf Trapp, a chemical weapons expert, told Al Jazeera that with the UN > team being present in the country, a very effective investigation could be > conducted. > > "It could be conducted very swiftly, because you are now in a time frame > [of a few hours or days after the attack] so you can find the actual agent > or degradation products of the agent, in biological samples and also in the > environment," he said, speaking from France. > > He said the symptoms that people in the videos he viewed showed were > consistent with the possible use of a chemical agent. > > However, Paula Vanninen, the director of Verifin, the Finnish Institute > for Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention, told Al Jazeera that > "some of those people were shaking and could have gotten the nerve agent > exposure, but for others it's quite difficult to say from the video what > has caused their death". > > "But you can see that they couldn't breathe. Something has caused that - > they were killed by not being able to breathe anymore," she added. > > 'Pre-planned provocation' > > Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said > circumstances around the reports, including the presence of UN inspectors > in the country, suggested that attack could be a provocation by the > opposition. > > "All this cannot but suggest that once again we are dealing with a > pre-planned provocation. This is supported by the fact that the criminal > act was committed near Damascus at the very moment when a mission of UN > experts had successfully started their work of investigating allegations of > the possible use of chemical weapons there," Lukashevich said in a > statement. > > > Activists said rockets with chemical agents hit the Damascus suburbs of > Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar during fierce pre-dawn bombardment by > government forces. > > The Damascus Media Office monitoring centre, citing figures compiled from > medical clinics, said 150 bodies were counted in Hammouriya, 100 in Kfar > Batna, 67 in Saqba, 61 in Douma, 76 in Mouadamiya and 40 elsewhere in > Damascus suburbs. > > They added that at least 90 percent of them were killed by gas and the > rest by shelling. > > Syria is said to have one of the world's largest stockpiles of chemical > weapons, including mustard gas and the nerve agent sarin. The government > refuses to confirm or deny it possesses such weapons. > > Rebels and the government have accused each other of using chemical > weapons in attacks during the country's civil war. > > In June, the US said it had conclusive evidence that Bashar al-Assad's > regime used such arms against opposition forces. > Source: > Al Jazeera and agencies > Hide Comments > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: prole...@egroups.com Subscribe : proletar-subscr...@egroups.com Unsubscribe : proletar-unsubscr...@egroups.com List owner : proletar-ow...@egroups.com Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! 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