USA now wants regime change in Syria, says United Nations envoy

“Russian Federation should ask themselves, .Why are we supporting this murderous regime that is committing mass murder of its own population?” “And I think he’s making a serious mistake. So I think we have to learn the lessons of the past and learn the lessons of what went wrong in Libya when you choose that pathway of regime change”.

“If this intervention is limited only to an air base, if it does not continue and if we don’t remove the regime from heading Syria, then this would remain a cosmetic intervention”, he said.

She said: “We do not see a peaceful Syria with Mr Assad in there”.

The comments from the Trump administration signal a new course in the foreign policy regarding Syria.

On Thursday, the Security Council abandoned negotiations on a resolution that condemned the use of chemical weapons and demanded access to Syrian government flight logs and air bases from the day of the attack.

“Any use of chemical weapons is unacceptable, can not go unanswered, and those responsible must be held accountable”, he added.

Haley disagreed, telling Tapper that the United States government has evidence. All of that is naturally classified.

On the ground, the US action seems to have cemented the alliance between Moscow and Damascus further, with the former sending a warship to the Mediterranean and threatening to halt a “deconfliction” channel, a hot line between the Russian and USA defence ministries to avoid direct confrontation in Syria.

But Alex Salmond, the SNP’s foreign affairs spokesman, said Johnson’s move made him look him “some sort of Mini Me” who can not be trusted to hold his own talks withLavrov. “If he needs to do more, he will do more”.

U.K. Defense Secretary of State Michael Fallon has claimed Saturday, writing in the Sunday Times that Russian Federation is responsible for the “barbaric chemical gas attack” in Syria Tuesday that claimed the lives of nearly 100 people and left 300 wounded.

“I think what we should do is ask Russian Federation how could it be, if you have advisors at that airfield, that you didn’t know that the Syrian Air Force was preparing and executing a mass murder attack with chemical weapons?” “There seems to be a difference between what Ambassador Haley is saying, and what she said last night that Assad really has no future, and what I heard this morning from Secretary Tillerson”.

Iran, which has provided crucial military and political support to Assad, meanwhile called for a fact-finding mission to determine what caused the chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun.

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Friday the Trump administration was ready to take further steps if needed.

But Sir Michael said the launching of nearly 60 missiles at the regime airbase from which the attack is said to have originated would now make future incidents less likely. “Or do they want it to be a relationship in which we can find areas of cooperation that are in our mutual interest?” “Why they’re supporting a regime that commits mass murder against its own people”.

Russian Federation is the Syrian government’s main ally, and helped facilitate a 2013 agreement to destroy Syria’s chemical arsenal. But the chemical attack changed his view on the situation, he said, as haunting images of harmed children shocked the world.

They said the USA actions against a sovereign state violatied global law and called for an objective, unbiased investigation of all the circumstances of the chemical weapons incident, the statement said.