NETHERLANDS: A plane carrying U.N. weapons inspectors who had been gathering evidence and samples relating to alleged chemical weapons use in Syria has landed at Rotterdam airport
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NETHERLANDS: A plane carrying U.N. weapons inspectors who had been gathering evidence and samples relating to alleged chemical weapons use in Syria has landed at Rotterdam airport
- Title: NETHERLANDS: A plane carrying U.N. weapons inspectors who had been gathering evidence and samples relating to alleged chemical weapons use in Syria has landed at Rotterdam airport
- Date: 31st August 2013
- Summary: ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (AUGUST 31, 2013) (REUTERS) VIEW OF ROTTERDAM AIRPORT VARIOUS OF VEHICLES DRIVING THROUGH AIRPORT VARIOUS OF PLANE THAT CARRIED U.N. WEAPONS INSPECTORS FROM SYRIA AT ROTTERDAM AIRPORT VEHICLE DRIVING THROUGH AIRPORT VARIOUS OF PLANE THAT CARRIED U.N. WEAPONS INSPECTORS FROM SYRIA AT ROTTERDAM AIRPORT VARIOUS OF PLANE THAT CARRIED U.N. WEAPONS INSPECTORS FROM SYRIA GOING INTO HANGER AT ROTTERDAM AIRPORT COVERS OF HANGER AT ROTTERDAM AIRPORT COMING DOWN
- Embargoed: 15th September 2013 13:00
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- Location: Netherlands
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- Country: Netherlands
- Topics: Conflict,International Relations,Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA837C52MEY3DAZDY4BSC2B02VH
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- Story Text: A plane carrying U.N. weapons inspectors who had been gathering evidence and samples relating to alleged chemical weapons use in Syria landed at Rotterdam airport in The Netherlands on Saturday (August 31), an airport spokesman said.
A spokesman for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said inspectors would return to the body's headquarters in The Hague. He said the samples the inspectors brought with them would be distributed between various laboratories for testing.
The inspectors left Beirut early on Saturday in an aeroplane provided by the German government, the German Foreign Ministry said.
The team of U.N. experts drove up to Beirut International Airport on Saturday after crossing the land border into Lebanon by road earlier in the day. No Western intervention had been expected as long as they were still on the ground in Syria.
The 20-member team had arrived in Damascus three days before the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack to investigate earlier accusations. After days holed up in a hotel, they visited the sites several times, taking blood and tissue samples from victims in rebel-held suburbs of Damascus and from soldiers at a government hospital. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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