On
Syria Chemical
Weapons, Kane
Has Reporter's
Information,
Sellstrom Next
UNITED
NATIONS, May
23 -- Back on
April 30 at
the Russian
Mission to the
UN, a Russian
state
television
reporter who
spent eight
months in
Syria,
Anastasia
Popova, told
Inner City
Press that while she
had
information
about the use
of chemical
weapons in
Al-Asal,
the UN panel
headed by
Paulo Sergio
Pinheiro had
declined to
look at it.
Inner
City Press wrote the
story, and
on May 1 asked
UN Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesperson
Martin Nesirky
if Ban's
prober Ake
Sellstrom
would be
willing to
look at
Popova's
evidence. Yes,
Nesirky said,
to
the surprise
of some.
Now we
can report
that Popova
has said she
did share her
information
with Ban's
High
Representative
on Disarmament
and main
negotiator
with Syria on
chemical
weapons,
Angela Kane.
And
Inner City
Press has
learned that
Kane's High
Representative's
Office has
received the
material and
are converting
it into a
usable format,
and it is
being sent to
the Head of
the Team, Ake
Sellstrom. Here's
ITAR-Tass
on this, in
English.
What
will Sellstrom
make of it?
And have he
and Kane
similarly
sought or got
any of the
information
Carla Del
Ponte referred
to when she
spoke of
"strong
suspicions" of
chemical
weapons used
-- by the
Syrian rebels,
not the
government?
Watch this
site.
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