"That could happen, and it may not happen", he said.
While the most immediate U.S.
But the civil war in Syria has driven a wedge between Moscow and Washington, upending what many in Russian Federation hoped would be a transformation in relations, which reached a post-Cold War low under Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama.
Russian Federation has criticized previous investigations carried out by the OPCW and the United Nations which blamed the Syrian government for at least three chemical weapons attacks without visiting the sites. Nazi Germany used gas chambers to kill millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
Spicer later apologized and said he should not have made the comparison.
"We saw a veto from Russian Federation today because the reality is, there's absolutely no question that Bashar al-Assad and his regime were responsible for the strikes".
Trump responded to the gas attack by firing 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian air base on Friday.
"We have seen very alarming actions recently with an unlawful attack against Syria", Lavrov said, referring to the cruise missiles Trump ordered to punish Assad for using chemical weapons. It is very important that the United Nations Security Council maintains unity on the Syria issue.
The fallout over the chemical attack follows comments by the Trump administration and Russian Federation that a reset in relations between the countries was possible after decades of hostility. They didn't look surprised.
"We know they have the expertise. Then you realize", she said on CNN.
Until the chemical attack, the Trump administration had sought to step back from the United States position that Assad should leave power. It said the Syrian planes were in the vicinity of Khan Sheikhoun about 20 minutes before the attack and left shortly afterward.
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"Additionally, our information indicates personnel historically associated with Syria's chemical weapons program were at Shayrat airfield in late March making preparations for an upcoming attack in northern Syria, and they were present at the airfield on the day of the attack", the report said. What it has to be is a long-term one, involving pressure (read sanctions), constant diplomatic engagement, quiet support for Russian civil society and political dissent, and, on the velvet side, some demonstration to the Russians that their role and place in Syria could be guaranteed by ousting Mr.al-Assad and bringing the Syrian civil war to an end.
It came days after Chinese leader Xi Jinping held his first meeting with President Donald Trump at a summit in Florida last week.
Tillerson earlier met foreign ministers from the Group of Seven advanced economies and Middle Eastern allies in Italy.
Can Russia abandon Assad?
Tillerson said, "The reign of the Assad family is coming to an end". Syrian bombing raids on the same town have already taken place from the attacked airfield, an in-your-face response to the USA strike, showing that it didn't take out the airstrip and thus our action was only a symbolic pinprick.
"The Russians really became the guarantor for Assad's behaviour in regards to chemical weapons and the guarantor for Assad's promise that he had given them all up", Jessica Ashooh of the Atlantic Council, a foreign policy think-tank in Washington, DC, told Al Jazeera. The Tomahawk missile made contact with the Shayrat airfield in Syria, from where the United States says the aircraft took off to launch the attack.
Trump denied further plans in Syria. The US scoops up such a large volume of communications intercepts in areas like Syria and Iraq, the material often is not processed unless there is a particular event that requires analysts to go back and look for supporting intelligence material. "We're not going into Syria". Washington blames Russia's ally, Syrian President Bashar Assad, while Moscow says Syrian rebels are responsible.
The vote on the Security Council resolution drafted by Britain, France and the United States was 10 in favor, Russian Federation and Bolivia against, and China, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia abstaining. But he said Wednesday the US doesn't have "firm information" to show that Russian forces were involved in the gas attack.
The events of the last few days have exacerbated a long-standing slide in relations between the United States and Russian Federation that can be traced back at least to the Bush administration and worsened sharply during the Obama years - largely after Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency in 2012.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blasted US claims that it has "irrefutable evidence" of election interference.
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