DHAKA: Russia will show the UN Security Council evidence it has received from Syria’s government pointing to the use of chemical weapons by rebels in the Damascus suburbs.

Russian news agencies quoted foreign minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.

Lavrov, who has said a report by UN investigators did not dispel Russia’s suspicions that rebels were behind an August 21 poison gas attack, spoke after one of his deputies was given unspecified evidence by the government while visiting Syria.

‘We will present all this in the UN Security Council, of course,’ Interfax quoted Lavrov as saying.

BDST: 2056 HRS, SEPT 18, 2013
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