05.06 France Certain Chemical Weapons Used in Syria - FM

MOSCOW, June 5 (RIA Novosti) - French authorities are certain that chemical weapons were used in Syria on several occasions, CNN quoted French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius as saying on Tuesday.

Fabius, who earlier in the day met with the head of a UN mission to establish the facts about alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria, said he informed the official, Swedish scientist Prof. Ake Sellstrom, about the results of tests carried out by a French lab appointed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

"These results show the presence of sarin in the samples that are in our possession," Fabius said. "In view of these elements, France now has the certainty that the sarin gas was used in Syria several times and in a localized manner."