Russia, Iran and Syria have proposed an on-site investigation into the use of chemical weapons in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei lavrov said on Friday.
“We insist on conducting a meticulous, objective and unbiased investigation into the alleged chemical weapon attack by Syrian aircraft on April 4,” lavrov said at a joint conference after talks with his Iranian and Syrian counterparts, Mohammad Javad Zarif and Walid al-Muallem, respectively.
The trio said that the probe should be carried out by a well-balanced team of experts under the auspices of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the UN chemical weapons watchdog, reported Xinhua news agency.
Russia and Iran hailed the readiness of the Syrian government to accept such a mission, lavrov said. On April 7, the US launched 59 cruise missiles against a Syrian military airfield in response to the Assad’s regime’s chemical weapons attack that killed at least 89 people in Syria’s Idlib province.