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U.N. rejects suggestion it's pulling out of Syria to allow strikes

2013-08-31 55 Dailymotion

The United Nations rejects suggestions that it's somehow stepping aside to allow U.S. air strikes on Syria over an alleged chemical attack.<br/> <br />U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE (English) U.N. SPOKESPERSON MARTIN NESIRKY SAYING:<br/> <br />"I have seen all kinds of reporting suggesting that the departure of the chemical weapons team somehow opens a window for military action of some kind... Frankly, that's grotesque."<br/> <br />The comments come the same day a team of U.N. chemical weapons experts arrived in the Netherlands with evidence gathered in their investigation of a poison gas attack in Syria.<br/> <br />The U.N. says the team will return at later date to investigate several other alleged poison gas attacks that have taken place over the course of the country's 2-1/2-year civil war.<br/> <br />But Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has slammed the U.N. for what he says is inaction on the crisis in Syria.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Turkish) TURKISH PRIME MINISTER, TAYYIP ERDOGAN, SAYING:

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