A team of UN experts has gone to Cyprus and is waiting to carry out an investigation on the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria, two weeks after Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon received a request from the government itself to examine the reported use by opposition forces.<br /><br />But early signs show there is little chance of the group entering the country, despite Ban's best efforts to convince the government to be "flexible".<br /><br />The rejection, posted on the state news agency SANA, is likely because the UN is promising to examine "all possible uses" of chemical weapons.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's diplomatic editor James Bays reports from the UN's headquarters in New York.
