By Jaime Ortega.
The Secretary of State of the United States, John Kerry, called Thursday for the international community to react as soon as possible to the latest United Nations report that confirmed the use of chemical weapons in Syria this August, inside the UN General Assembly which will take place next week.
“There is little time . No we debate about something we already know ,” Kerry said in an appearance before the media at the State Department, and stressed that all data on UN report confirms the use of sarin gas attack on the August 21 on the outskirts of Damascus.
” We really have no time to pretend that anyone can have their own version of the facts on the issue of chemical weapons in Syria ,” he said .
“This struggle over Syria chemical weapons is not a game . Its real. Its important. and more important for people living in Syria , it is important for the region, and is important for the world to apply the agreement obtained in Geneva , “he said.
Kerry reached to the public last week after three days of talks in the Swiss capital to an agreement with his Russian counterpart ,Sergei Lavrov , to help force Syria to deliver the chemical weapons it possesses, “with immediate actions and complete” destruction.
“The regime of Bashar Assad is guilty of the chemical attack ,” continued the secretary of state, who stressed that the Syrian government’s efforts to eliminate evidence of their use were in vain.
” So there you have it . Sarin was used. Now the world can decide whether it was used by the regime, which has used chemical weapons before, a regime that had missiles and weapons, or if the opposition went , without anyone noticing , in a territory that does not control, to fire rockets have-nots, with sarin to kill his own people, ” said Kerry.
Assad said on Wednesday , in a television interview that it “will take a year,” to destroy chemical weapons in their possession, a much longer period than provided in the Geneva agreement, which states that Syria shall have delivered all that arsenal before the end of the first half of 2014.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin , said he can not guarantee one hundred percent that Syria meets the disposal plan of its chemical weapons , but expressed the hope that this will be possible.
