White House National Security Council spokesperson Ned Price said that the United States calls on Russia and Iran to join efforts to seek accountability for those responsible for using chemical weapons in Syria.






 WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The United States calls on Russia and Iran to join efforts to seek accountability for those responsible for using chemical weapons in Syria, White House National Security Council spokesperson Ned Price said in a press release.
"The United States will work with our international partners to seek accountability through appropriate diplomatic mechanisms," Price stated on Wednesday. "We urge all UN member states and parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention, including Russia and Iran, to participate in this effort."


Earlier in the day, Price noted, the UN and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons released the results of a probe into chemical weapons attacks in Syria in 2014 and 2015 that implicate the Syrian government and Daesh terrorist group.

Syrian envoy to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari told Sputnik that the UN ignored hundreds of reports on chemical attacks filed by the Syrian government.

On Tuesday, Jaafari claimed that the sarin gas attack that killed hundreds of people in the Syrian town of Ghouta in August 2013 was a plot organized by French intelligence.

By Sputnik