The head of a UN investigative body has reached out to Syria's new authorities via their diplomatic missions to express his willingness to engage with them and to travel to Syria to secure evidence, he told a press briefing on Tuesday.
"Our first priority would be to go and try and scope the extent of the issue, see exactly what is available in terms of access and potential evidence, and then see how we could best assist in preserving that," Robert Petit, head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism, told a Geneva press briefing.