Chemical Attack: The Test Results of the UN Known Within Two Weeks

Samples collected by UN experts in Syria on suspected sites of chemical attack will be sent on Monday to competent laboratories. The first results could be published in at least two weeks.

Various laboratories around the world to analyze the evidence gathered by UN investigators on the use of chemical weapons in Syria during the attack of 21 August, in Ghouta, east of Damascus, will receive samples from Monday.

"The samples should be sent to a half-dozen laboratories around the world, in countries that are not politically involved," and told AFP, Michael Luhan, a spokesman for the Organization for prohibition of Chemical weapons (OPCW), after receiving Saturday levies investigators in The Hague, the Netherlands .

According to the OPCW, the analysis should determine if chemical weapons have been used and which are not used , could take three weeks. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon would however asked the chief experts Aake Sellström to accelerate the analysis of samples and information obtained by the mission and to "communicate the results as soon as possible," said Sunday the spokesman of the UN, Martin Nesirky.

According to diplomats , Ban Ki -moon said on Friday would have the ambassadors of the five permanent members of the Security Council (United States, France, United Kingdom, Russia, China ), the results would be ready in two weeks.

Washington claims to have evidence on the use of sarin gas

While the initial findings of the United Nations should therefore not be made ​​public before 15 September , the United States may decide before that date on a possible military intervention in Syria. The U.S. Congress must indeed meet from September 9 to give permission to launch strikes against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

In order to convince the U.S. Congress of the need for such action , the Secretary of State, John Kerry, assured on Sunday that the United States had received and analyzed samples demonstrating the use of sarin gas in the attack on August 21 .

" Samples of hair and blood were positive for traces of sarin gas," he said on the air NBC News stating that these were "independent" of those collected by UN investigators .

When asked about the vote of the U.S. Congress, John Kerry is confident and called on his colleagues to be responsible for: . . " We know where the attack is coming We know exactly where it happened we know exactly what happened after . "

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