Shameless barbarism: U.S. Secretary of state urged Russia and Iran to influence Assad
The U.S. government appealed to Russia and Iran, urging them to influence the Syrian government to prevent a repetition of attacks like the one that occurred in Idlib province.
This is stated in the statement of US state Secretary Rex Tillerson, writes “Interfax”.
“Russia and Iran have declared themselves the guarantors of the truce, which was negotiated in Astana, bear great moral responsibility for those deaths (in Idlib province – ed)”, – reads the statement of the Secretary of state.
He also called on Moscow and Tehran to abandon the “illusions” about the Syrian President. According to him, Assad “acts of cruel, unscrupulous barbarism.”
“Anyone who uses chemical weapons to attack its own people demonstrates a fundamental disregard for human values and needs to be brought to justice”, – reads the statement of the Secretary of state.
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The Commission of inquiry, the UN launched an investigation into himataki in Syria
Also the chemical attack will be discussed at the meeting of the UN security Council on 5 April.
Earlier, activists said that the released substance was chlorine, which is not classified as a chemical weapon Convention weapons. Other activists, including British physician Shajul Islam, said that the symptoms were characteristic of sarin gas.
Note, the Syrian opposition accused the army of Bashar al-Assad in the Commission of a gas attack. In turn, a source in the Syrian army said that the army did not use chemical weapons now and in the past.
Activists and journalists are placed in a Network photograph with the consequences of a gas attack.