"In general, primitiveness and loutishness are very characteristic of the current rhetoric coming out of Washington. Inconsistency is what comes to mind first of all". "No", Trump said. But, he added, "I see them using gas. we have to do something".
After journalists were ushered out of the room, Lavrov's spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, wrote on her Facebook page that United States journalists traveling with Tillerson had behaved as if they were in a "bazaar" by shouting questions to Lavrov. "Russian Federation is open to dialogues with the U.S.in different areas, and not only to dialogues but also to joint actions", he said.
Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the foreign affairs committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament said Moscow would only agree to restore the link on condition that the "U.S. abandons any action against the Syrian army".
But Trump did not seem to change in his assessment of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who Trump has spoken of admiringly in the past.
France, the United Kingdom and the US introduced the resolution in response to the suspected sarin attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun on April 4, which killed more than 80 people, including women and children. He likened the USA response in bombing a Syrian air base to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, arguing that now just as then Washington relied on false data about chemical weapons.
Washington is leading a campaign of air strikes in Syria against Islamic State fighters and has backed rebels fighting against Assad during a six-year civil war, but until last week the United States had avoided directly targeting the Syrian government.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Moscow amid tensions over a deadly chemical attack in Syria. "Putin is the leader of Russian Federation". Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports.disabled3000042387Iwdn3blTvzw212443212468http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/news-wrap-north-korea-warns-u-s-aggression-threat-strike/News Wrap: North Korea warns against US aggression with threat to strikeIn our news wrap Tuesday, North Korea issued a fiery new warning to the United States, threatening nuclear strikes on American military bases in South Korea and elsewhere if the USA makes any aggressive move.
Unemployment steady at 5.9 per cent
The Bureau of Statistics estimated that 74,500 full-time jobs were created in March, while 13,600 part-time jobs were lost. But the data will not change current forecasts of no foreseeable change in the RBA's cash rate, he said.
The United States and its European allies imposed financial sanctions on Russian Federation in 2014 after Putin seized territory from neighboring Ukraine. Russian Federation has never publicly acknowledged any such attacks by Assad's forces and has tried for the past 18 months to help him expand his authority in Syria.
Tillerson took a more diplomatic approach and said it was important for both countries to state their positions and understand where they differed.
President Trump said he has no plans to enter Syria, despite ordering airstrikes on a Syrian military base last week.
The president himself told Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo that Putin is aligning himself with someone who is "evil" and that "I don't think it's good for Russian Federation". "But when I see people using awful, frightful chemical weapons. and see these attractive kids that are dead in their father's arms, or you see kids gasping for life. when you see that, I immediately called [Defense Secretary] General Mattis".
Some of Washington's allies had been wary of Trump, who spoke during his election campaign of seeking closer ties with Moscow and questioned the value of US support for its traditional friends.
Tillerson is traveling Tuesday to Moscow.
If Russia or Syria were to use their military assets to fend off any future US strike, it may put Moscow and Washington on the brink of a head-on confrontation, and the Kremlin's decision to cut the crucial communications link between the militaries could make matters worse. The FBI is investigating whether any Trump campaign figures colluded with Moscow, which the White House denies.
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