Syria: Rex Tillerson says Russia must choose between “unreliable” Assad and the US, allies
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has urged Russia to abandon its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, amid growing tensions over a chemical weapons attack.
The statement came after a meeting of Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers in Italy, following last week’s apparent chemical weapons attack by Syrian government forces.
It also came just hours before Mr Tillerson arrived in Moscow on the first official trip to Russia by a member of US President Donald Trump’s Cabinet.
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