Farhan Haq confirmed that Russian journalists who were on assignment in Syria have handed the United Nation Secretariat videos showing chemical weapons attacks committed by rebel groups’ militants in the vicinity of Aleppo on March 19.
He said that the information will be passed along to Oke Selstemu, the head of the group of experts investigating the possible use of weapons of mass destruction in Syria.
In late March, Damascus notified the UN Secretariat of the chemical attacks carried out by armed insurgents.
A report by RTR journalist Anastasia Popova, confirms the use of toxic substances apart from footage of the event in which there are eyewitness accounts and reports from doctors who took care of the dead and injured and statements from experts from the University of Aleppo.
United Nations investigators also said earlier that they have found testimony from victims and medical staff that shows militants have used the nerve agent sarin in Syria, which has been classified as a weapon of mass destruction in UN Resolution 687.
Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated," Del Ponte, a member of UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria said in television interview.
On December 17, Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bashar Ja’afari said in letters to the UN Security Council and the UN secretary general that the foreign-sponsored militants could use chemical weapons against Syrians and try to shift the blame to the government.
Damascus is "genuinely worried" that Syria’s enemies could provide chemical weapons to armed groups "and then claim they had been used by the Syrian government," Ja’afari stated.