Video: Syria: 'UN inspection of chemical sites key to legitimacy of Kosovo-style action' The discovery by UN inspectors in Syria of definitive evidence of a chemical weapons attacks by the regime of Bashar Al-Assad would give Kosovo-style military action "much wider legitimacy and credibility," says Lord Malloch-Brown, a former UN Deputy Secretary-General. During the Kosovo campaign in 1999 Nato forces conducted weeks of air strikes against the Serbian military without the backing of the UN Security Council, and despite fierce oppostion from Russia. Lord Malloch-Brown told The Telegraph that the lack of conclusive proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, combined with the lack of any Security Council blessing for military action "came to haunt and finally destroy much of the legitimacy of that mission." He added that the upcoming meeting in Jordan between miitary chiefs from the US, UK, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, where they are due to discuss the situation in Syria, was "a chance to resolve a fundemental difference" between the hitherto cautious approach favoured by Washington and London and that of France and Qatar, which he described as "much more gung-ho."