{"id":29743,"date":"2013-08-23T22:58:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T18:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=29743"},"modified":"2013-08-23T23:03:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T19:03:37","slug":"russia-backs-un-probe-of-alleged-chemical-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=29743","title":{"rendered":"Russia Backs UN Probe of Alleged Chemical Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sergey-lavrov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29740\" alt=\"sergey lavrov\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sergey-lavrov.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sergey-lavrov.jpg 650w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sergey-lavrov-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sergey-lavrov-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>The Russian Foreign Ministry is calling for an independent probe by United Nations experts into what Syrian rebels alleged was a chemical weapons attack by government forces on the outskirts of Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>The statement released on Friday said that Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had discussed the situation by telephone on Thursday, and concluded that they had a &#8220;mutual interest&#8221; in calling for the U.N. investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said Russia had called for Syrian President Bashar Assad&#8217;s embattled government to cooperate with an investigation, but questions remained about the willingness of the opposition, &#8220;which must secure safe access of the mission to the location of the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been one of Assad&#8217;s key allies in the international arena.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Foreign Ministry is calling for an independent probe by United Nations experts into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,149,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-russia","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}