They have said the attack which killed more than 80 people was either a rebel provocation or the result of Syrian planes hitting a rebel weapons factory.
"We cannot give up and we must try, in good faith, the best we can, to have a text condemning the attack, asking for a thorough investigation", French Ambassador Francois Delattre told reporters. Russia, Assad's staunchest ally, has insisted that Assad is blameless and that it was actually the rebels responsible for the disbursed chemical weapons. Experts have said that only the Syrian regime is likely to have the capability to produce Sarin, a volatile substance with a very short shelf life. Other times they have been less careful, as was Obama in a "60 Minutes" interview just five days before he left office earlier this year.
This was after another fact-checking outfit, PolitiFact, retracted its "mostly true" rating for a 2014 claim from then-Secretary of State John Kerry that "100 percent" of those weapons were removed from Syria.
"Even if we have them, we wouldn't use them, and we have never used our chemical arsenal in our history".
He insisted that his government would never use banned weapons. He anniunced them as rebel-held-town of Khan Sheikhum. "Anybody that was so brutal and uses gases to do that to young children and babies - it's ok".
The Syrian government was supposed to have given up its entire chemical weapons stockpile under the terms of a 2013 deal brokered by Russian Federation and the United States.
In his AFP interview, Assad accused the West, particularly the United States, of being "hand-in-glove with the terrorists" over the Khan Sheikhoun incident. Among the 15 members of the UNSC, only Russian Federation and Bolivia, whose administration is anti-U.S., voted against the resolution, leaving a strong impression of Russia's isolation within the global community.
President Donald Trump ordered a cruise-missile strike Friday against a Syrian air base in response to the chemical attack, setting off a debate that has scrambled opposing camps.
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Russian Federation said the gas was part of rebel stockpiles, which the rebels have denied. Doctors at hospitals near the scene told CNN that victims had died of asphyxiation.
"You have a lot of fake videos now, and you have the proof that those videos were fake, like the White Helmets, for example", he alleged.
On Wednesday, Russia blocked a draft resolution at the UN Security Council, which said that Damascus must hand over all data on April 4 flights to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and provide access to the airbases that could be used to carry out a strike against Khan Sheikhoun.
The Syrian president made the remarks in an exclusive interview with AFP in Damascus on Wednesday.
Syria's President Al-Assad all set to tackle TrumpOPCW has begun the investigations against these attacks in Syria. "No-one has any other information".
"They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack", added Mr Assad, who has been in power for 17 years.
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".
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