LONDON: Once again Russia is blaming foreign powers conspirators for the chemical attack on Douma near Damascus last saturday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday said Moscow had “irrefutable” evidence that an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria was staged with the help of a foreign secret service.
“We have irrefutable evidence that this was another staged event, and that the secret services of a certain state that is now at the forefront of a Russophobic campaign was involved in this staged event,” he said during a press conference.
The US and France say that they have proof chemical attacks on Douma took place and will consider punitive military action alongside the UK.
Russia has requested a UN meeting in New York Friday but there are no confirmation the security council will convene before Monday.
A delegation from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will start work in Douma near Damascus Saturday. Assad’s regime has pledged to facilitate their arrival to Damascus and it remain to be seen if they will gain access to the site of Douma’s chemical attack that has killed more than 70 civilians and more than 500 affected by chlorine and nerve agent gas.
