Tillerson said on Thursday that Russian Federation had "failed in its responsibility" to remove Syria's chemical weapons under a 2013 agreement, which he argued showed Russian Federation was either complicit with the gas attacks or "simply incompetent".
"The prime minister and the president agreed that a window of opportunity now exists in which to persuade Russian Federation that its alliance with Assad is no longer in its strategic interest", May's office said.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due to land at the airport on Tuesday afternoon to begin a visit to Moscow.
Alfano said there was "no consensus" among G7 countries for new sanctions after the idea was raised at a meeting in Lucca by British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
Russian Federation has given Assad crucial diplomatic backing throughout the war in Syria, which has killed more than 300,000 people and uprooted many more.
Meanwhile, Assad's allies reportedly threatened retaliation if the US strikes again. "It is incredibly important that we speak with one voice at the United Nations", one official told reporters, to send a "clear message that the use of chemical weapons" is unacceptable. "We have no evidence for that, we don't know whether the Russians were involved at all", Johnson told Sky News. That may hardly be punishment for the Kremlin, which dismissed many of Obama's similar warnings about Russian Federation being sucked into a quagmire in Syria with no way out while tarnishing its worldwide reputation.
North Korea's illegal nuclear programme and the USA decision to send warships to the Korean peninsula, ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Libya, the threat from terrorism and migration were also on the agenda.
Tillerson is traveling Tuesday to Moscow.
"Countries that have been supportive of the Assad regime bear some of the responsibility for the chemical attacks on innocents", he said.
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That same day, the administration suggested Russian Federation broke an global deal to gather Assad's chemical weapons.
"Nothing has changed in our posture", the White House said in a statement.
Russian Federation has already said it would bolster Syrian air defences and suspend lines of communication with the USA created to avoid direct confrontations in the skies over the country.
Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said he had invited "other countries which have a similar view to ours on Syria".
"We have seen sanctions against Ukraine, and they didn't achieve much".
"I think it is clear that we see no further role for the Assad regime longer-term given that they have effectively given up their legitimacy with these type of attacks", he said before flying to Moscow.
"We have information from various sources that such provocations - I can not call them otherwise - are being prepared in other regions of Syria, including in the southern outskirts of Damascus, where they are again planning to throw some kind of substance and accuse Syrian official authorities of using it", Mr. Putin said during the live speech.
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