April 7, 2017
09:00
The President of Russia regards the US airstrikes
on Syria as an act of aggression against a sovereign
state delivered in violation of international law under a far-fetched
pretext. The Syrian Army has no chemical weapons. The fact
of the destruction of all Syrian chemical weapons’ stockpiles
has been recorded and verified by the OPCW, a specialised
UN body. Vladimir Putin believes that complete disregard for factual
information about the use by terrorists of chemical weapons
drastically aggravates the situation.
This move by Washington [the US airstrike on an air
base in Syria] has dealt a serious blow to Russian-US relations,
which are already in a poor state. Most importantly, this move will
not bring us closer to the ultimate goal of combatting
international terrorism but will instead create a major obstacle
to the establishment of an international counterterrorist
coalition and to effective struggle against this global evil,
something that US President Donald Trump declared as one of his main
goals during his election campaign.
Vladimir Putin regards the US strikes on Syria
as an attempt to draw public attention away from
the numerous civilian casualties in Iraq.
On Friday, the United States launched Tomahawk cruise missiles
at an air base in Homs Province in western Syria.
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