Syria To UN: Stop US Strike, Prevent Absurd Use of Force

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Syria delivered two identical letters to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and President of the UN Security Council, Maria Cristina Perceval.

In its letters Damascus called on the international body to maintain its role of protector of international legitimacy and prevent US-led aggression against Damascus, Syria's permanent representative to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari told SANA.

The Syrian government denied any use of chemical weapons on the civilian population, with Jaafari reminding of Syria's cooperation with the UN on this issue, which was often downplayed and twisted in the western media.

"The Syrian government is the first side who asked the UN Secretary General to form an objective investigation team to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal in Aleppo," Bashar al-Jaafari said, adding that they warned, "more than a year ago, against the serious risks of the possibility of using chemical materials by the armed terrorist groups in Syria."

Despite the Syrian government's swift permission for the UN investigation team to probe the site of the alleged attack on August 21, some "foreign countries" launched an anti-Assad campaign accusing government forces of slaughtering their own people, Jaafari said.

"Syria has informed, in official letters, the UN Secretary General and the UNSC about the activities of these groups, which coincided with a political, diplomatic and media campaign led by some countries which are directly responsible for shedding the blood in Syria and preventing the peaceful solution in order to accuse the Syrian government of using chemical weapon," he added.

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