US, Russian envoys talk Syria after chemical weapons charges

French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean Yves Le Drian and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at a Paris meeting

French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean Yves Le Drian and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at a Paris meeting

The chemical weapons allegations weren't mentioned in either account of the conversation.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed the North Korean issue in a call on Wednesday.

Now the militants are planning to flee the Al-Tanf area and prepare terrorist attacks in Syrian provinces of Damascus, Homs and Deir-ez-Zor "to engage and retract Syrian forces" fighting terrorists in Idlib, the Friday statement by Russia's MoD said.

Russian Federation said that Lavrov repeatedly called for diplomacy and political ways to resolve the North Korean crisis. He demanded that Moscow stop vetoing, "or at least abstain", from future UN Security Council votes on this issue.

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The US ambassador's statement also ignores repeated attempts by the Syrian government to inform the world of the crimes committed and still being carried out by armed terrorist groups and their supporters against innocent citizens through the use of poisonous chemicals on more than one occasion, the statement read.

Moscow's response was immediate. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made statements today that "we categorically disagree with the approach employed by the Americans, who have actually swept under the rug any real probe into previous cases of chemical weapons use".

The US and its allies have been constantly blocking the Russian proposal to adopt a United Nations Security Council resolution or a statement of its chairman condemning the acts of chemical terrorism in the Middle East, where militants not only use toxic chemicals, but also acquired capabilities to make warfare agents by themselves, said the ministry.

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