The European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has said the EU's 28 nations agreed that available information seemed to show strong evidence that the Syrian government perpetrated a chemical attack in August.
Ms Ashton was speaking at the end of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, where they discussed the situation in Syria and Europe's response.
During the meeting US Secretary of State John Kerry briefed ministers on the US' position with regard to Syria.
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore was among those attending.
In advance of the meeting in Vilnius, Mr Gilmore said: "We must continue to focus on a political solution to the worsening crisis in Syria and concentrate our efforts on the humanitarian help which the people of Syria so desperately need".
Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama told his war-weary country that America needs to use limited military force in Syria to deter future chemical weapons attacks, but said he did not want to enter into another costly and protracted war.
"This would not be another Iraq or Afghanistan," Mr Obama said in his weekly radio and internet address, previewing arguments he will make in a nationally televised address on Tuesday.
"Any action we take would be limited, both in time and scope - designed to deter the Syrian government from gassing its own people again and degrade its ability to do so," Mr Obama said.
A week ago, Mr Obama said he felt limited strikes in Syria were needed, but added he wanted to ask Congress to authorise the use of military force.
Neither Democratic nor Republican politicians have been enthused about the prospect, partly because Americans strongly oppose getting involved in a another Middle Eastern conflict.
"I know that the American people are weary after a decade of war, even as the war in Iraq has ended, and the war in Afghanistan is winding down."
"That's why we're not putting our troops in the middle of somebody else's war," Mr Obama said in his recorded address.
Mr Obama and his top officials plan an intensive lobbying effort on Capitol Hill next week, scheduling meetings with undecided lawmakers.
Mr Obama said failing to respond to the 21 August attack would threaten US national security by increasing the chance of future chemical attacks from the Syrian government, terrorist groups, or other nations.
Washington blames the attacks on President Bashar al-Assad's government and that killed hundreds of children and more than 1,400 people in total.
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