Lavrov: ‘There Needs To Be a Very Thorough Investigation’ of the Chemical Weapons Attack

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LAVROV (via translator): "We have reaffirmed that we both seek to fight without any compromise the international terrorism. This issue has been raised by our presidents in the course of their telephone conversations including their telephone conversation on April 4th in the night when President Trump called President Putin in order to express his condolences on the terrorist attack that had taken place in St. Petersburg and the context of fighting international terrorism. We have talked about Syria, of course. We have touched upon the incident that took place after April 4th when in the province of Idlib in Syria, chemical weapons were used. We have talked about the ensuing missile attack of the U.S. against the airbase on April 7th. We have stated our position on many occasions to date. We have said that there needs to be a very thorough investigation into this incident which has become the subject of many speculations."