Russia: New evidence, UN report "biased"

Russia has "received evidence" from the Syrian authorities indicating that sarin was used by the insurgents, and said a UN report on the subject was biased.

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DAMASCUS, WASHINGTON Russia has "received evidence" from the Syrian authorities indicating that sarin was used by the insurgents, and said a UN report on the subject was biased. AFP quoted a senior Russian official as saying that the UN report on the use of chemical weapons in an attack in Damascus last month was "one-sided and biased." Russia: New evidence, UN report "biased" "They handed us the evidence. It is indeed true, and now we have to analyze it well," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in Damascus, refusing to give any further details. However, news agencies are interpreting his statement, given after his meeting with Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem, to indicate that, as the BBC reported, "Russia believes that the material handed over points to evidence that the chemical weapons were used by the insurgents." As for the UN report, Ryabkov said, "Russia is not satisfied, the report was distorted, politically, it is one-sided, and was not based on sufficient data." "We need to know much more about the events in August," he said. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in the meanwhile, said his country will closely monitor each step in the realization of a plan to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria, and will at the same time continue to hold "the Syrian regime under a credible military threat." In a closed-door meeting, Kerry late on Tuesday informed members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs on the strategy for the removal of chemical weapons in Syria, agreed last week in Geneva with Russia. (Beta/AP, file) B92 AFP Tanjug

Russia: New evidence, UN report "biased"

"They handed us the evidence. It is indeed true, and now we have to analyze it well," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in Damascus, refusing to give any further details.

However, news agencies are interpreting his statement, given after his meeting with Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem, to indicate that, as the BBC reported, "Russia believes that the material handed over points to evidence that the chemical weapons were used by the insurgents."

As for the UN report, Ryabkov said, "Russia is not satisfied, the report was distorted, politically, it is one-sided, and was not based on sufficient data."

"We need to know much more about the events in August," he said.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in the meanwhile, said his country will closely monitor each step in the realization of a plan to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria, and will at the same time continue to hold "the Syrian regime under a credible military threat."

In a closed-door meeting, Kerry late on Tuesday informed members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs on the strategy for the removal of chemical weapons in Syria, agreed last week in Geneva with Russia.

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