On Wednesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson emerged from a almost two-hour meeting with Putin saying the two countries had reached a "low point" in relations.
Earlier on Wednesday Tillerson had a similar tone after an nearly two-hour meeting with Putin, saying the two countries had reached a "low point" in relations.
Syrian President Bashar-al Assad has said reports of a chemical attack by his forces were "100% fabrication".
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday to support the investigation by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons into the chemical weapons attack in Syria last week, Turkish presidential sources said. There were no signs that would support the statement, the allegation that chemical agents were used there at all. Any expectations of an easy rapport have crashed into reality amid the nasty back-and-forth over Syria and ongoing USA investigations into Russia's activity connected to the U.S. presidential election.
The Syrian leader said it was unclear who carried out the attack in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun on 4 April, which killed more than 80 people.
Mrs May also defended Boris Johnson after he failed to persuade other G7 states to tighten sanctions on Russian Federation.
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.
Flights cancelled as New Zealand waits for storm to hit
The weather has also disrupted flights across the country, with Air New Zealand suspending all flights in and out of Tauranga. The MetService of New Zealand has issued warnings for heavy rain and strong winds for several areas of the North Island.
"It is encouraging to some extent that Rex Tillerson confirmed yesterday that [the U.S. still holds] the opinion that there is no alternative to the political process [of the resolution of the Syrian crisis] despite all the recent negative developments", he said. I mean, they can have missiles from another continent.
Assad said the US and Syria could still be allies "if they are serious in fighting terrorists".
"You have a lot of fake videos now", he said, according to AFP.
-Russian relations - which echoed a similar assessment made by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hours earlier in Moscow - came Wednesday after a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House.
Mr Trump delivered a scathing denouncement of the Syrian president, saying: "Putin is backing a person that's truly an evil person". As a presidential candidate a year ago, Trump criticized Obama and Hillary Clinton, the former USA secretary of state during Obama's first term and Trump's opponent in the election, for getting involved in foreign conflicts and waging wars in other countries. Moallem said. He added that Russia, Iran and Syria have "common procedures against any aggression", but wouldn't offer any specifics. The Syrian government has repeatedly denied using them, blaming rebel groups in some instances.
Moscow has strenuously objected to Trump's decision to launch 59 U.S. Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian air base that the U.S. says was used to pummel civilians with nerve gas, resulting in 87 deaths.
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