Two weeks following a suspected April 7 gas attack in Douma, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said a team of its inspectors collected samples from the site on Saturday.
"The samples collected will be transported to the OPCW Laboratory in Rijswijk and then dispatched for analysis to the OPCW’s designated labs," the OPCW said in a statement.
It said the mission would draft a report based on the findings, as well other information and materials collected by the team.
“The OPCW will evaluate the situation and consider future steps including another possible visit to Douma.
Earlier, Russia's Foreign Ministry said international experts have arrived at the site of a suspected April 7 gas attack in the Syrian town of Douma.
Western officials and Syrian activists have accused Russia and the Syrian government of trying to tamper with evidence of the chemical attack after OPCW inspectors were delayed from visiting the site.
Meanwhile, UN Security Council member states meeting in a remote farmhouse in Backakra on the southern tip of Sweden on Saturday were discussing the Syrian file and a new SC Resolution.
The 15 member states are exerting efforts to overcome deep divisions over how to end the war in Syria.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres attended the emergency meeting of the Security Council, which might be joined on Sunday by UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.
“We still face a very serious divide on that [Syria] matter," Guterres said as he arrived in the Swedish farmhouse with the ambassadors.
He added, “We really need to find a way in relation to the violation of international law that the use of chemical weapons represents.
The farmhouse is the summer residence of Dag Hammarskjold, the second UN secretary general who died in a plane crash in Africa in 1961.
