UN Fails to Resolve Conflicting Claims on Sarin Use in Syria
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The United Nations today failed to clear up conflicting claims about chemical weapons in Syria, after a former war-crimes prosecutor said there were signs that rebels, not government forces, had used sarin gas.
“I was a little bit stupefied by the first indications we got, they were about the use of nerve gas by the opposition,” Carla Del Ponte, a member of a UN commission investigating human-rights violations and war crimes in Syria, told Swiss-Italian public television yesterday.