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Syria’s staunchest ally has joined international calls for UN investigators to be allowed access to the site of an alleged massacre where it is claimed 1,300 people have been killed in a chemical weapons attack.
Russia, which has suggested the attack could be a “premeditated provocation” by opposition forces, urged the Syrian government and the United Nations to agree on a visit by the experts, who were already in the country to examine previous claims of chemical weapons use in the two-and-a-half year civil war.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Syria’s position on sending inspectors to the site of the reported attack should be respected, but dismissed the suggestion that Russia would object to such an investigation.