U.S. gives to Russia info on use of chemical weapons by Assad's regime, it is unconvincing - Ushakov
MOSCOW. June 14 (Interfax) - Information about the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government against the opposition given to Russia is not convincing, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said.
"I would like to confirm that our representatives met with U.S. ones. Americans tried to give us information on the use of chemical weapons by the [Assad's] regime at the meeting. Things Americans stated did not seem convincing to us to put it straight forward," Ushakov told journalists on Friday.
Ushakov said that he assesses the situation in the way that "it was important was for Americans to play up the fact of providing the information to the Russian side."
"I would not like to draw parallels and to believe this data [on the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government] may look like the situation when U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell waved a test-tube at the well-known [UN] Security Council session," Ushakov said, recalling the situation ahead of the U.S. military operation in Iraq.
