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August 31, 2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that it would be ‘utter nonsense’ for the Syrian government to use chemical weapons and urged the U.S. to hold off on any punitive military action against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
‘While the Syrian army is on the offensive, saying that it is the Syrian government that used chemical weapons is utter nonsense,’ he said. ‘I would like to address Obama as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate: before using force in Syria, it would be good to think about future casualties.’
He challenged the U.S. to provide any evidence tying Assad’s forces to the attack and suggested that top leaders discuss the issue next week at the G20 summit.
‘If they say that the [Syrian] governmental forces used weapons of mass destruction… and that they have proof of it, let them present it to the UN inspectors and the [UN] Security Council,’ Putin said. ‘Claims that the proof exists, but is classified and cannot be presented to anybody are below criticism. This is plain disrespect for their partners.’
The Obama administration released a four-page intelligence report Friday that said at least 1,429 people, including more than 400 children, were killed by a chemical weapons attack on August 21.
‘I am convinced that [the chemical attack] is nothing more than a provocation by those who want to drag other countries into the Syrian conflict, and who want to win the support of powerful members of the international arena, especially the United States,’ Putin said.
Putin’s remarks come after the Obama administration made its most forceful case Friday for a punitive strike against Assad.
‘History would judge us all extraordinarily harshly if we turned a blind eye to a dictator’s use of chemical weapons,’ Secretary of State John Kerry said, calling Assad a ‘thug’ and a ‘murderer.’
