By Jaime Ortega.
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The UN said Sunday it will begin to analyze the evidence collected in Syria by their experts on an alleged chemical weapons attack against the civilian population.
“Tomorrow ( for Monday ) we started to take the tests to laboratories ,” a spokesman said on Sunday in the United Nations in New York. Two Syrian officials will be present during the analysis.
The UN secretary general, Ban Ki -moon called the head of the delegation of experts , Åke Sellström , who returned on Sunday to The Hague with his team after 12 days in Syria.
Ban called on the Swedish expert to “accelerate the analysis” of the samples and the information obtained , although ” without compromising good work” to obtain accurate scientific results.
In addition, the Secretary General asked for transmitting the results ” as soon as possible ” , and argued with Sellström possible ways to “accelerate the process,” said Nesirky .
The analysis could take “up to three weeks,” according to the OPCW in a statement on its website on Saturday, but Nesirky said the UN is not going to set any timetable .
Ban also spoke by phone Sunday with the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, whose country is so far the only one willing to join the United States in a retaliatory strike against the regime in Damascus , but the spokesman did not give details of this conversation.
International Consensus
The UN secretary general , who met last Friday with the five permanent members (with veto power ) of the Security Council, will do the same with the ten non-permanent members , possibly on Tuesday before traveling to St. Petersburg (Russia ) for the G20 summit.
Nesirky said that Syria is an important issue for the G20 meetings, and, asked about whether Ban will have bilateral talks with presidents of the United States or Russia ( Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin respectively) , who lead divergent positions on the Syrian conflic.
Ban “took note” of the decision Obama announced Saturday asking the U.S. Congress authorized an attack on Syria , and regards it as an aspect of the effort to achieve a ” broad international consensus ” on measures against the possible use of weapons chemical.
“The use of chemical weapons should not be accepted under any circumstances, there should be no impunity and no perpetrator of a crime against humanity as horrible must answer for it ,” said the spokesman.
The Secretary-General believes that the Security Council ” should stand firm and united in agreeing measures” against the use of chemical weapons, he said.
Nesirky noted that the group of experts in the use of chemical weapons to Syrian territory will investigate other allegations of alleged use of these weapons by the Damascus regime and the rebels.
