Syria rejects UN chemical probe mission because…

Syria has rejected a UN inspection mission tasked by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to probe the alleged use of chemical weapons in the country.

According to the official SANA news agency, a Syrian Foreign Ministry official said on Monday Ban has “suggested a supplementary mission allowing the mission to deploy throughout Syrian territory, which is contrary to the demand Syria made to the United Nations.”
The ministry official said, “Syria cannot accept such maneuvers on the part of the UN secretariat general, bearing in mind the negative role that it played in Iraq… which cleared the way to the American invasion” of that country in 2003.
He added, the Syrian government “regretted” that the UN chief had “given in to pressure from states known for their support of the bloodshed” in Syria.
The official went on to say that Syria had particularly requested “a neutral and honest technical team to visit the village of Khan al-Assal” in the northern province of Aleppo.
Earlier in the day speaking in The Hague, the UN secretary general said that a UN inspection team was in Cyprus and ready to be deployed to Syria to investigate the alleged use of chemical weapons there.
Foreign-backed terrorists used chemical weapons against civilians in Khan al-Assal on March 19. Turkey provided the chemicals for the rebels as in the video footage we have watched before.