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Russia has offered to provide troops to guard facilities where Syria’s chemical weapons would be destroyed, as UN inspectors prepared to continue their investigation into the use of such agents in the country’s civil war.
Also yesterday, a mortar shell slammed into the Iraqi consulate building in central Damascus, killing one person and wounding three, Syrian state media said.
The attack on the consulate came a day after Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned Western nations not to send military aid to the rebels for fear it could assist jihadi groups.
In Moscow, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia is ready to ensure security and help guard facilities, once the chemical weapons are stored for destruction in Syria. He spoke just hours after another Russian deputy foreign minister, Gennady Gatilov, said the UN Security Council was just two days away from agreeing on a resolution that would require Damascus to dismantle its chemical weapons stockpiles.
Gatilov said the resolution will include a reference to Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which allows for military and nonmilitary action in the interests of peace.
The United States and Russia have been at odds on how to enforce the resolution after brokering a joint agreement earlier this month on the eventual destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons. By agreeing to the accord, Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government escaped a punitive American strike over an August chemical weapons attack.
Meanwhile, the team of UN inspectors is back in Syria to investigate three claims of chemical weapons use earlier this year. They will also seek information on three other attacks last month said to include chemical agents.
The inspectors first went to Damascus last month to investigate a March 19 attack and two other incidents in the north when an alleged chemical attack occurred outside the Syrian capital.
The August 21 incident in the eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus became their focus after the US and its allies said Assad’s troops were responsible.
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