Singling out Vladimir Putin over his support for Assad not only goes a long way in clarifying the U.S.'s desire to once again take a leadership role, it also communicates that Trump is no longer content to let the Russians solve the Syrian problem. Tillerson called for Assad to eventually relinquish power. Tillerson is considering the request, he said, "and we expect that Washington will have a constructive reaction".
Al Jazeera's Rory Challands, reporting from Moscow, said the press conference highlighted the two diplomats' "differences in style, in position and in views of the world".
"In general, primitiveness and loutishness are very characteristic of the current rhetoric coming out of Washington", Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russia's state-owned RIA news agency.
He has since made his support of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies clear, but has reiterated his stance that European members need to meet their end of the bargain if they are to continue benefiting from the military alliance.
President Trump said that the images of the attack's aftermath moved him to act, launching the Tomahawk strike on the airbase from where the USA believes the planes took off to carry out the attack.
The talks appeared unlikely to bring any significant breakthroughs after last week's missile strike plunged U.S.
After the talks, Tillerson warned "there is a low level of trust between our two countries. The world's two foremost nuclear powers can not have this kind of relationship".
On April 6, the United States launched 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian military airfield, located in the Syrian province of Homs, in response to what U.S. President Donald Trump called a "horrible chemical weapons attack" in the Syrian city of Idlib.
Russia's hopes for a thaw in Russia-U.S. ties following Trump's election have been shattered by the congressional investigation into alleged ties between Trump's campaign associates and Russian Federation. I have absolutely no doubt we did the right thing. Russian Federation suspended its role in the system after the US missile strikes, and Lavrov said it could be restored if the USA -led coalition conducting airstrikes in Syria focused only on the Islamic State and other militant groups - and not expand to Syrian government targets.
Tillerson said the United States is confident in its assessment that Syrian government forces used chemical weapons in the bombing on Khan Sheikhoun and alleged that Syria has used such weapons more than 50 times in the past. "We're going to see how that all works out".
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In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Trump said his administration's policy was not to demand Assad step down as part of a "peaceful resolution to the conflict", in some contrast to Tillerson's remarks in Moscow.
"Are we insisting on it? No". "That is to say, the amount of information being exchanged is determined, as I understand it, depending on the situation".
White House spokesman Sean Spicer yesterday said that the president was not ruling out another attack on Syrian government installations if Assad continued to use chemical weapons against civilians.
The White House has accused Moscow of trying to cover up Assad's use of chemical weapons after the attack on a rebel-held Syrian town last week killed 87 people.
The Syrian government would have been told to provide military information, including flight logs, from the day of the alleged attack, and provide access to air bases.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem welcomed worldwide inspectors to visit the base Washington said served as a platform for the attack.
Moscow has stood by Assad, saying the poison gas belonged to rebels, an explanation Washington dismisses as beyond credible.
President Trump said Wednesday that relations with Russian Federation "may be at an all-time low" following Syria's use of chemical weapons last week and the USA airstrike that followed.
Speaking to reporters, Tillerson reiterated Washington's position that Assad must eventually relinquish power - a position starkly at odds with Russian Federation, which has been bombing rebel-held areas in Syria in support of Assad's forces since September 2015.
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