United States impose sanctions on Russia for supporting Assad, the UN Envoy Haley

US to Impose Sanctions on Russia Over Support of Assad - Envoy to UN Haley

Following a massive US strike on Syrian facilities on April 17, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley said during a meeting of the UN Security Council that Washington was “charged” to do the news strikes on the war-torn country in the Middle East.

We were told by UN Ambassador Nikki Haley CBS that Washington is preparing new sanctions against Russia because of Moscow’s support for the Syrian government, adding that measures will be announced on Monday.

According to her, the new restrictions will affect companies that supposedly “work with the hardware associated with Assad and any use of chemical weapons”.

“And so I think everyone will feel it at the moment. I think we all know that we sent a powerful message and we hope that they listen to him,” Haley said, answering the question about the possible US response to Russian support of Syria.

Despite the fact that Syria had destroyed all its stocks of chemical weapons “Arsenal” a few years ago, as it has been confirmed by international observers, Haley also blamed the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons a “more normal and that Russia covers, this must stop.”

In a separate interview with “Fox news”, Haley said that the United States does not intend to pull its troops from Syria, while its goals in the country. She listed three main objectives for us: to ensure that chemical weapons are not used in any case that pose a danger to the interests of the United States that ISIS* is lose and that there is a good vantage point to see what Iran is doing, speaking on “Fox news”.

She said that the main goal of Washington is “to see American troops come home,” but he’s not going to leave “until we know what we have done these things.”

She further noted that Washington will not conduct direct talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and added that connects us with Russia is “very tense”, partly because of Syria, but the United States still hopes to improve relations.

Earlier, U.S. President Donald trump said that he wants to get American troops out of Syria in a relatively short time, but they should stay a little longer to helpful to defeat Isil terrorist group.

The statement was released Friday evening, the United States, France and Britain began air strikes on several targets in Syria in response to alleged chemical incident in the Damascus suburb of Duma. Western countries blamed the Syrian government for the attack with the use of chemicals in douma. The Syrian leadership denied involvement in the attack and invited experts from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW) to investigate the report.

According to the Ministry of defense of Russia, the three countries produced more than 100 cruise and air-to-surface missiles, most of which was shot down by Syrian air defense. According to Damascus, which has repeatedly said it had destroyed its stockpiles of chemical weapons in the attack suffered by Syrian infrastructure, eft and three civilians were injured.

Sourse: sputniknews.com

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