Syria Rejects U.N. Report Blaming It for Sarin Attack<br />27, 2017<br />The Syrian government rejected a report sent to the United Nations Security Council<br />that blamed it for a chemical attack on the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhoun in April in which dozens of people were killed, state media said on Friday.<br />"Syria rejects in form and substance what was included in the report of the U.N. and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM)<br />that was announced yesterday," the state news agency SANA reported, citing an official in Syria’s foreign ministry.<br />The official said the report had been compiled under instructions from the United States<br />and other Western countries "to place more political pressure" on Syria, SANA reported.
