Orient Net, Mar 2, 2018— The United States is making a push at the United Nations to set up a new inquiry into chemical weapons attacks in Syria, three months after Russia killed a previous UN inquiry.

The US ambassador to the UN said on March 1 that she wants the UN Security Council to create a new investigative team charged with determining who is behind chemical attacks in Syria following several reports of the use of chlorine gas in Syria’s eastern Ghouta in recent weeks.

US Ambassador Nikki Haley said she hopes the council will vote on the measure as early as next week. The initiative comes days a child suffocated to death and 13 other people fell ill from a suspected chlorine gas attack over the weekend.

A previous UN inquiry ended in November after Russia vetoed efforts to renew its mandate. Russia maintained that the investigative team, which had attributed most of the chemical attacks it investigated to the Assad regime, was biased against its ally.