The Lancer B-1B bomber is ready to be deployed to launch missiles to Syria. Photos are immortalized at Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar, 14 Spril 2018.
President of the United States, Donald Trump, warned the Syrian government that the United States will launch more strikes if the regime of Bashar al-Assad continue to carry out chemical attacks.
At an emergency meeting at the UN Security Council on Saturday (14/04) New York time, the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said the series of attacks on Syria was "justified, valid and proportional".
"I spoke to the president (Trump) this morning and he said, 'if the Syrian regime uses that poison gas again, the United States is ready to shoot'."
Haley added, "We can not keep silence and let Russia violate every international norm and allow chemical weapons without consequences."
A number of demonstrators gathered in front of the White House to oppose the actions of the United States, Britain, and France against Syria.
The statement was received by Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, who read President Vladimir Putin's statement of accusations that the US, Britain, and France were "cynically degrading" because they acted without waiting for the findings of the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Russia then attempted to submit a resolution containing joint condemnation of missile strikes to Syria. However, of the 15 members of the UNSC, only China and Bolivia agreed on the Russian proposal.
Meanwhile, the Syrian envoy to the UN, Bashar Jaafari, accused the United States, Britain and France of being a "liar, destroyer, and hypocrite" exploiting the United Nations "to promote ... intervention and colonial policy".
US, British and French missile strikes are targeting buildings in Syria suspected of chemical weapons. This was done after the alleged chemical attack to Douma.
Despite these allegations, the OPCW reported that it has conducted two checks at two Syrian facilities in February and November 2017.
From that monitoring, the OPCW claimed to have found "any activity that is inconsistent with the obligations under the CWC (Chemical Weapons Convention").
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