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UN chemical weapons inspectors resume Syria inquiry UN chemical weapons inspectors have resumed their investigations in Syria, as speculation mounts over a possible Western strike on military targets. The team's operation was suspended on Tuesday due to security concerns. On Monday the team's convoy was shot at by unidentified snipers. They are set to head to one of the sites affected by a suspected attack on the outskirts of Damascus on 21 August in which hundreds of people are reported to have died. American and other Western leaders have sharpened their rhetoric against Syria in recent days and say they are considering military intervention. But Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Wednesday that US intervention would be a "disaster" for the region. "The region is like a gunpowder store and the future cannot be predicted," Mr Khamenei said, according to Iran's Isna news agency. On Tuesday US Vice President Joe Biden said there was "no doubt" that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons and that it must be held accountable. The US says it will release its own intelligence report into the incident at Ghouta, a suburb of the capital, in the coming days. The Syrian government has strongly denied that it used chemical weapons and blames opposition fighters for the attack. It is not clear which districts the inspectors will be visiting on Wednesday. On Monday they visited the suburb of Muadhamiya, where they went to two hospitals and interviewed doctors and patients as well as witnesses of the attack and took away biological and environmental samples for laboratory tests. But concerns were raised for their safety after one of their cars came under fire from unidentified gunmen as it crossed the buffer zone between government and rebel-controlled areas. 'Ready to punish' US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel told the BBC on Tuesday that the US military was ready to launch strikes should President Barack Obama order an attack. President Obama is said to have made at least 88 calls to foreign leaders since the suspected attack on 21 August, and spoke to UK Prime Minister David Cameron for the second time on Tuesday. Mr Cameron said the world could "not stand idly by", and French President Francois Hollande said France was "ready to punish" whoever was behind the attack. The UK's National Security Council is due to convene on Wednesday to discuss possible responses, while Parliament is to be recalled on Thursday. Mr Cameron's office said the UK government had not yet taken a decision on the specific nature of a response, but that it would be "legal and specific to the chemical weapons attack". On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that "attempts at a military solution will lead only to the further destabilisation" in Syria and the region. Mr Lavrov emphasised the need for a political solution in a phone call to the joint UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, the foreign ministry in Moscow said. Russia, China and Iran have previously warned against launching an attack on the war-ravaged country, where more than 100,000 people are thought to have died in two years of fighting. Stocks have fallen on global markets and oil prices have shot up amid growing concern about an impending attack. Intervention 'imminent' BBC diplomatic correspondent James Robbins says the US, UK and France will now have the larger task of building as wide a coalition as possible to support limited military action. Syrian opposition sources have said they have been told to expect a Western intervention in the conflict imminently. "There is no precise timing... but one can speak of an imminent international intervention against the regime. It's a question of days and not weeks," AFP news agency quoted Syrian National Coalition official Ahmad Ramadan as saying. "There have been meetings between the Coalition, the [rebel] Free Syrian Army and allied countries during which possible targets have been discussed." Meanwhile the Arab League said it held Syrian President Bashar al-Assad responsible for the attacks and called for UN action. But both Russia and China are permanent members of the UN Security Council and wield a veto on possible action. China's state news agency recalled that intelligence used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq turned out to be flawed, while Syria's neighbour and ally Iran said any strike would threaten the stability of the region. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem demanded evidence that the government had used chemical weapons. "I challenge all countries who [are] saying that Syria used chemical weapons to present their evidence to their public opinion," he told the BBC. He told a news conference that faced with the choice of surrendering or defending itself, Damascus would fight.
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सिरियाले रासायनिक अस्त्र प्रयोग गरेकोमा 'शंका छैन': बाइडन सिरिया विरुद्ध संभावित जवाफी प्रतिक्रियाको तयारी भैरहंदा अमेरिकी उपराष्ट्रपति जो बाइडनले, सिरियाली सरकारले आफ्ना जनता विरुद्ध रासायनिक अस्त्र प्रयोग गरेको भन्नेमा “कुनै शंका” नभएको बताएका छन्। अमेरिका र ब्रिटेनले सिरिया विरुद्ध हुने कार्वाही, दमस्कसमा सत्ता परिवर्तनका लागि नभई भविष्यमा रासायनिक अस्त्रको प्रयोगलाई निरुत्साहित पार्नका लागि मात्र हुने भन्नेमा जोड दिएका छन्। रासायनिक हमलाका बारे अमेरिकाले आफ्नो गुप्तचर जानकारी सार्वजनिक गरेको छैन । तर अमेरिकी संचार माध्यमहरुले जनाए अनुसार, हमलाको घटनापछि गोप्य रुपमा सुनिएको सिरियाली प्रतिरक्षा अधिकारीहरुबीच भएको टेलिफोन कुराकानीको आधारमा, उक्त हमलाका लागि सरकारको जीम्मेवारी स्थापित हुन गएको छ। परामर्श सिरिया विरुद्ध कस्तो कार्वाही गर्ने भन्नेमा राष्ट्रपति बाराक ओबामाले विश्व नेताहरुसंग परामर्श जारी राखेका तर त्यसबारे अन्तिम निर्णय लिइनसकेका ह्वाइट हाउस ले जनाएको छ। रक्षामन्त्री चक हेगलले राष्ट्रपति बाराक ओबामाको आदेश भएमा अमेरिकी सेना सिरियामा हमला गर्नका लागि तयार रहेको बताएका छन्। गत साता सिरियामा भएको भनिएको रासायनिक हमला बारे संकलित गोप्य सुचना केहि दिन भित्र सार्वजनिक गर्ने ह्वाइट हाउसले जनाएको छ। संभावित प्रतिकृयाबारे छलफल गर्न ब्रिटिश सरकारले पनि बिहिबार संसदको पुन बैठक गर्ने भएको छ। ब्रिटिश प्रधानमन्त्री डेभिड क्यामरनले भने, “रासायनिक हमलाका कारण मानिसहरुले भोगीरहेको पिडा र मृत्यु देखेपछि विश्व चुप लागेर बस्न सक्दैन।“ अहिलेको संकट गत बुधबार सिरियाको राजधानी वरपरको क्षेत्रमा ३०० जना भन्दा बढी मानसको ज्यान जाने गरि भएको भनिएको रासायनिक हमला पछि निम्तिएको हो। सहयोग फ्रान्सका राष्ट्रपति फ्राँस्वा ओलान्डले घटनाको जिम्मेवार जो हो त्यसलाई सजायं दिन फ्रान्स तयार रहेको बताउँदै सिरियाको मुख्य बिपक्षीलाई सैनिक सहयोग दिने निर्णय गरीएको जानकारी दिएका छन्। सिरियाका बिपक्षी स्रोतहरुले सिरियामा अब छिट्टै पश्चिमा हस्तक्षेप हुने जानकारी आफुहरुलाई गराईएको बताएका छन् । तर सिरियालाई समर्थन दिंदै आएका रुस र चीनले सिरियामा सैनिक हस्तक्षेप गर्ने कुरा विरुद्ध चेतावनी दिएका छन् । सिरियाका विदेशमन्त्री वालिद अल मुआल्लेमले आफुहरु माथि कुनै प्रकारको आक्रमण भएमा आफ्नो देशले हर किसिमले आफ्नो बचाउ गर्ने बताएका छन्। उनले आफ्नो सरकारले रासायनिक अस्त्रको प्रयोग नगरेको भन्ने दावीलाई पुन: दोहोर्याएका छन्। मुआल्लेमले भने, “म के कुरामा विश्वास दिलाउन चाहन्छु भने संसारको कुनै पनि देशले आफ्नै जनता विरुद्ध रासायनिक अस्त्रको प्रयोग गर्दैनन् र त्यसकै पुष्टिका लागि हामीले राष्ट्रसंघीय पर्यवेक्षकहरुलाई अनुसन्धानका लागि अनुमति दिएका हौं।“ आफ्नो सरकारले रासायनिक अस्त्र प्रयोग गरेको भनी अरोप लगाउनेहरुलाई त्यसको प्रमाण पेश गर्न पनि उनले चुनौती दिएका छन्।