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Russia wants to work with US over Syria gas probe
 [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia will work with the United States on a response after a UN investigation found that the Syrian regime had carried out chemical attacks, Moscow’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Thursday."We have a joint interest in discouraging such things from happening, preventing such things from happening even in the fog of war," Churkin told news hounds. Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... La Belle France’s foreign minister urged on Thursday that the Security Council had to respond firmly after a UN probe found that Syrian government troops were responsible for two toxic gas attacks. "The use of chemical weapons, which the Syrian authorities agreed to ban in 2013 under international pressure ... is an abomination that highlights the damning role played by the Damascus regime in the worsening situation in Syria," Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a statement. A joint investigation by the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... and the global chemical weapons watchdog also found that ISIS forces of Evil had used sulphur mustard gas, according to a confidential report seen by Rooters. "La Belle France calls for a response that measures the seriousness of this. The Security Council must not shirk its responsibilities and La Belle France is already working with its partners" on the matter, Ayrault said. The results set the stage for a Security Council showdown between the five veto-wielding powers, likely pitting Russia and China against the United States, Britannia and La Belle France over whether sanctions should be imposed in the wake of the inquiry. French diplomatic sources said Gay Paree wanted to use the chemical weapons report to push for a resolution at the Security Council that would force Russia, the key backer to Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Horror of Homs... , to accept that its ally had used banned weapons and as a result would use its influence to back a credible ceasefire across the country. "We need to use this report to force Russia out of its ambiguity. If they were to veto such a resolution they would need to justify the use of chemical weapons," one senior diplomat said. The 15-member Security Council is due to discuss the report next week. UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon said the report would be made public after that meeting. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-26 |
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