Zakharova: US Accusations of Syrian Government “Involvement” in a 2013 Chemical Attack in Ghouta Baseless

MOSCOW- Moscow believes the United States’ accusations of Syrian government “involvement” in a 2013 chemical attack in Ghouta are baseless, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said, according to Sputnik.

Zakharova said at a weekly briefing on Thursday that the US State Department once again accuses the Syrian government of a chemical attack launched four years ago, without presenting any proof.

 She noted that Washington also “rubberstamped” its accusation against Damascus of perpetrating the April 4, 2017, attack on Khan Sheikhoun.

“We still have not heard a coherent, objective reasoning in this respect. We still do not understand why Washington is so confident in the Syrian government guilt in these incidents,” Zakharova said.

The Syrian army strongly rejected the accusations and the Syrian authorities said that they had never used chemical weapons against civilians or terrorists, and that the nation’s entire chemical arsenal had been destroyed under the control of the OPCW.

Reacting to the incident, Washington, which has not presented any proof of the use of chemical weapons by Damascus, launched 59 cruise missiles at the Syrian governmental military airfield in Ash Sha’irat on April 7.

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