Swedish Lab to Study UN Team’s Syria Samples - Paper
STOCKHOLM, September 3 (RIA Novosti) - A military lab in the northern Swedish city of Umea will analyze samples collected by a UN team on the site of a purported chemical attack in Syria, Swedish media said on Monday.
Umea’s Vasterbottens-Kuriren newspaper said it had received confirmation of the report directly from the team’s chief, Swedish expert Ake Sellstrom. Vasterbottensnytt, the local office of Sweden’s national SVT television, said Sellstrom arrived to Sweden on Monday.
The Swedish Defense Research Agency’s laboratory in Umea is the country’s only facility, accredited by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for this type of research.
“There is about a dozen of people who will work with these samples. We have clear rules on how it should be done,” Vasterbottens-Kuriren quoted Britt Karlsson, a researcher with the agency, as saying.
“The OPCW has strict demands, and we have the highest level of accreditation. According to the rules, we have two weeks [to do the research], but, of course, we hope to give our response sooner,” she said.
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