Under a 2013 deal between the United States and Russian Federation, struck after a chemical attack in suburbs of Damascus killed hundreds of people, Syria was supposed to dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal.
Trudeau was, however, non-committal when it came to the question of how to remove Assad from power, and whether Russian Federation should be punished for supporting him.
Trump ordered a massive military strike against a Syria Thursday in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack they blame on President Bashar al-Assad.
In Washington, at a news conference with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation secretary-general, President Trump was asked by the BBC's Jon Sopel if he thought it was possible that Syrian forces could have launched the alleged attack without Russian Federation knowing about it.
At the weekend, Tillerson said Russia's support of the Syrian regime made it complicit in the Assad's actions.
One of Mr Lavrov's deputies was even more undiplomatic.
Russia "saw some very troubling actions regarding the attack on Syria", he said, according to an official Russian interpreter.
"You have no friends in the world after your awful actions", Haley told the Syrian government.
"No missile strikes, no Muslim ban, no fascist United States of America", they chanted as some passersby spontaneously joined the protest, which was marked with several large banners held by protesters or erected between light posts. -Russian relations is worse off now than it had been under the Obama administration.
Putin's statements signal that he doesn't see dropping Assad as a viable option.
Mr Putin's decision to host Mr Tillerson signalled Moscow's intent to maintain communication with the USA even as the countries bash each other publicly in louder and louder tones.
Tillerson, Lavrov open tense meeting; Putin repeats assertion on chemical weapons
Reporters asked whether Tillerson had introduced evidence at Wednesday's meetings of Russian interference in the US election. Security Council resolution on the attack until the U.N. chemical weapons watchdog has completed an objective probe.
The unscheduled talk came amid warnings from Moscow that the US missile strike on a Syrian airbase in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack must not be repeated.
The 59 Tomahawk missiles cost about $93 million, and while they hit a number of facilities on the air base, they did so little real damage that Syrian planes were taking off from the runways just hours after the strike.
Mr. Tillerson, for his part, was more blunt about the poor state of U.S.
The meeting comes as early expectations of an easy rapport between the Trump administration and Russian Federation are crashing into reality.
He added: "We stand ready to work together and I will be talking to my G7 partners in the coming days about how we can continue to strive for a political solution that brings an end to the suffering of the Syrian people".
The Pentagon has insisted that no such danger exists. -Russian tensions over Syria "will not spiral out of control", arguing that Moscow has no interest in allowing the current disagreements over Syria to lead to a broader confrontation.
The spokeswoman said the two leaders had also stressed the importance of the worldwide community, including China, putting pressure on North Korea to constrain the threat it poses.
Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vladimir Safronkov attends a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East on April 12, 2017 at UN headquarters in NY. Sergio Mattarella is in Russian Federation on an official visit.
The news conference came after Russian president Putin met the top American diplomat for nearly two hours to see if they could rescue relations between the world's mightiest military powers.
Russian Federation claims the Syrian regime is being unfairly blamed for the chemical attack, and on Wednesday Putin said that the attack was "simply staging" and a provocation, in his interview with MIR. He met with both Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin earlier Wednesday.
Syrian U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari said Syria had sent dozens of letters to the Security Council, some detailing "the smuggling of sarin from Libya through Turkey on a civilian air plane by using a Syrian citizen". Taking him out of the equation without a clear transition plan would be a major gamble.
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