A-Akhbar | September 17, 2013
Russia remains convinced that the August 21 poison gas attack in Syria was a provocation by rebel forces and says a report by UN inspectors does not answer all of its questions about the attack, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
Speaking at a press conference alongside French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius a day after UN inspectors confirmed the use of the nerve agent sarin, Lavrov took a different view to France and other Western states which say they believe that Syrian government forces were behind the attack.
“We have the most serious basis to believe that this was a provocation,” Lavrov said.
The foreign ministers said that they had the same aim of ending the bloodshed, but disagreed on the methods to get there.
Fabius said there was a “difference in the approach on the methods.”
(Reuters, AFP)