U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that the United States believe they have a “strong evidence” of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime.
During a dialogue with users organized by the social network Google Plus, NBC News and the State Department, Kerry said: “This fight is about the terrible choices the Assad regime has made, with its willingness to kill anywhere from 70,000 to 100,000 of its own people now, to use gas, which we believe there is strong evidence of use of, to massacre people with Scud missiles, with artillery, and to really try to pretend this is somehow an outside affair, when really this is people within Syria fighting for a different future.”
These words of U.S. diplomacy leader, who just returned Friday home from a tour in Moscow and Central Russia centered on situation in Syria, marks a further step in the American executive statements regarding chemical weapons used in this country at war.
The White House said Monday that it was very likely that the use of some of the chemical weapons in Syria to be attributable to the Syrian regime and not to the rebels.
President Barack Obama promised in late April a re-evaluation of the American options on Syria if it turns out that Damascus has used chemical weapons, but warned against any decisions made without all items in hand.
Syria has used chemical weapons and violated for a long time the red line set by the United States, said on Friday the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for NBC News. Kerry has called again for a transitional government in Syria which will not include President Assad.
He also spoke again about the international conference on Syria which he announced this week from Moscow for the end of May, confirming that it might take place in Geneva.
“If we can get to this meeting in Geneva, the arguments will be very clear to everybody as to who is prepared to be reasonable, and who is not prepared to be reasonable,” Kerry said. He believed a forum in which the Syrian people could have a fair choice in their leadership “could avoid war, and you could have a settlement.
There are also reports confirmed by Carla Ponti, member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights violations in Syria that rebels had used sarin gas in Syria against government troops.
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