US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson echoed that comment after meetings with Russian leaders in Moscow, saying that relations are at a low point with a low level of trust. Russia, which backs Assad's regime, has claimed he is not responsible. Russian Federation has seen the same pictures that we all saw just days ago in this chamber.
Tillerson said the two countries had agreed to set up a "working group" to coordinate on "smaller issues". He said Moscow has lots of questions about the "very ambiguous" and "contradictory" ideas emanating from Washington.
Then US secretary of state Hillary Clinton says that by blocking the resolution, Beijing and Moscow must "bear responsibility for the horrors that are occurring on the ground in Syria". Russian Federation says rebels dispersed whatever chemical agent was found, which the Trump administration calls a disinformation campaign.
Lavrov said Moscow was hoping to understand Washington's "real intentions" and warned that Moscow considered it "fundamentally important" to prevent more "unlawful" U.S. strikes against its ally Syria.
"That's a butcher. That's a butcher", Trump said of Assad. It was the first direct United States military action against Assad's forces since the start of Syria's civil war six years ago and led to a quick downward spiral in ties between Washington and Moscow.
Maynes adds, "The Kremlin argues Assad gave up his chemical weapons stores under a 2013 agreement Moscow brokered with the Obama administration; Tillerson has accused Russian Federation of "incompetence" in failing to enforce that deal".
"So far we have not seen any facts". "They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack", added Assad, who has been in power for 17 years.
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In an interview with Fox News aired Wednesday, Trump said he broke the news of the USA missile strike on Syria during a dinner with Xi and that the Chinese leader "was OK with it" because it was in response to the use of "gases" and victims had included young children and babies.
Trump even criticized Putin on Wednesday, something he has largely left to top aides over the last several days. But in a Fox Business Network interview, the USA president said he wouldn't intervene militarily against Assad unless the Syrian leader resorts to using weapons of mass destruction again.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that week that the Syrian air force airstrike near Khan Shaykhun hit a terrorist warehouse that stored chemical weapons slated for delivery to Iraq. "I would like to think that they didn't know, but certainly they could have", Trump said.
US President Donald Trump, speaking at an event in the White House, said he was not surprised by China's abstention.
Lavrov also said Russian Federation was calling for an independent investigation through the United Nations into the circumstances surrounding the chemical attack and the USA response to "try and identify the culprits".
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg echoed Trump's call for cooperation with Russia, but said the USA and NATO need to be strong in the face of Russian assertiveness.
Putin, whom USA intelligence agencies say tried to help Trump get elected, insisted that relations with the US had only gone downhill since Trump took office in January.
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