UK To Send Protection For Syrian Opposition

The British Government is to give Syrian opposition forces £656,000 worth of equipment to protect against chemical and biological weapon attacks.

Foreign Secretary William Hague said 5,000 escape hoods will be sent, along with nerve agent pre-treatment tablets and chemical weapons detector paper.

He said the chemical weapons hoods protected against Sarin attacks for up to 20 minutes. Those who wear them are able to move away from an affected area but cannot continue to fight, he said.

The tablets can give those under a chemical weapons attack the time to get to a medical centre to receive atropine, the drug needed to overcome Sarin.

In a written ministerial statement to MPs, Mr Hague said the assistance would be offered to the Supreme Military Council and the Syrian National Coalition.

Bashar al Assad is thought to have used chemical weapons

The cost of the non-lethal assistance would be met from the Government's conflict pool fund.

Mr Hague said the Government needed to "gift" the Syrian opposition fighters the equipment without going through the proper parliamentary procedures because it was "a matter of special urgency" as there was evidence Syrian President Bashar al Assad was using chemical weapons in the conflict.

He said: "We have to be prepared to do more to save lives. There is evidence of attacks using chemical weapons in Syria - including Sarin.

"We believe that the use of chemical weapons is sanctioned and ordered by the Assad regime."

Last week, MPs passed a Commons motion calling on the Government to seek the "explicit" consent of Parliament before deciding to arm rebel fighters in Syria.

The motion - that "this House believes no lethal support should be provided to anti-government forces in Syria without the explicit prior consent of Parliament" - was passed by 114 votes to one.

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