Syria said on Saturday that rebel fighters used chemical weapons in a northeastern district of the capital.

Syria said on Saturday that rebel fighters used chemical weapons in a northeastern district of the capital, indicating that some soldiers who entered the neighborhood had suffocated as “an army unit was surrounding a sector of Jobar where terrorists used chemical weapons.”

On this issue, UN Under Secretary General Angela Kane arrived in Damascus Saturday for talks aimed at establishing the terms of an inquiry into alleged chemical weapons attacks, AFP reported.

For his part, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius claimed on Saturday that all “indications show that Syria's government was behind a "chemical massacre" near Damascus that the opposition claims killed hundreds.”

“All the information at our disposal converges to indicate that there was a chemical massacre near Damascus and that the Bashar regime is responsible,"
Fabius said on a visit to Ramallah in the West Bank.

“We ask that the UN team that is there can be deployed very quickly and make the necessary inspections," Fabius said.

“The information which we have shows that this chemical massacre is of such gravity that it obviously cannot pass without a strong reaction," he added, knowing that the Syrian government had strongly denied accusations it carried out the attacks.”