The US state Department acknowledged Tuesday that he “cannot comment on” the question of whether or not it has samples from the Duma, where Washington, Paris and London have argued that
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gassed his own people.
“I can’t comment on that,” said state Department spokesman Heather Nauert told reporters on Tuesday when asked if we have samples of evidence that chemical weapons were used.
The United States believes that the nerve gas sarin was used along with the gaseous chlorine during a recent attack on the city of Duma on the outskirts of Damascus, Nauert said during the briefing.
“We have information that leads us to believe that both chlorine and sarin gas was used in the attack,” said Nauert.
The US state Department sources said the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW) inspection team are unable to enter the Syrian city of Duma has yet to conduct an independent investigation, – said the speaker.
“Our sources which we believe to be reliable, indicate that the team has not been able to enter the Duma,” Nauert said. “It is our understanding of the situation as it is now”.
The representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said in my previous statement that the Western media claim that Russia allegedly “blocked” the OPCW entry into the Duma are unfair.
Nauert also said that sanctions against Moscow “is not canceled, we just don’t have anything to announce at this time”. On Sunday, US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said that sanctions were inevitable, but the White house and the Ministry of Finance eventually brought the case to the end.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
