29.08.2013 - 08:57 [ Außenministerium der Russischen Föderation ]

Speech and answers to questions from the mass media by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the press conference on the topic of chemical weapons in Syria and the situation around the Syrian Arab Republic, Moscow, 26 August 2013

(26.August) When investigating the current situation, we need to fully analyse the information, which is circulating on the Internet, which questions the version of use of chemical weapons by government authorities. The (global) network contains many professional and expert assessments, including from the United Kingdom, the United States, and other foreign countries, which point out to the lack of evidence in the videos, which can be found on the Internet. There are reports that many of these videos were posted on the websites concerned many hours before the known Arab TV channels announced about a chemical attack against the opposition on the 21 August.