France mulls action with partners over Syrian use of chemical arms
Country consults with partners on response to Assad after accounts of attacks against rebels
France is consulting its partners over how to respond to growing proof of the use of chemical weapons in Syria, says French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
"There is increasingly strong evidence of localised use of chemical weapons," Fabius said yesterday at a meeting of European Union foreign ministers. "That must all be verified, we are doing that with other partners.
"We are consulting with our partners to see what concrete consequences that we are going to draw from this."
He was speaking after French newspaper Le Monde said it had first-hand accounts that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had repeatedly used chemical weapons against rebel fighters in Damascus.