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Russia, U.S. to Focus on Syria during G8 Summit

Russia, U.S. to  Focus on Syria during G8 Summit

MOSCOW - The Syria issue will top the agenda of a planned meeting between Russian and U.S. presidents during the upcoming G8 summit, a Kremlin aide said Friday. “Big attention will be paid to the Syria issue, especially on the background of the U.S. representatives’ claims that their intelligence has information that Bashar al-Assad’s regime used chemical weapons,” Yuri Ushakov told reporters.

Moscow and Washington did not compete in Syria but sought to solve the problem “in a constructive way,” Ushakov noted.

However, if the U.S. would supply Syrian opposition with arms, that would not facilitate preparations for an international conference on Syria in Geneva, said the diplomat.

According to the U.S. President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs Ben Rods, the U.S. possesses information that Syrian government troops used sarin against the rebels “on insignificant scale.”

 He added that the U.S. has furnished Russia with proof of chemical weapons being used in Syria.

 The information has not convinced Moscow, though, Ushakov added.“

For the U.S. it was more important to play up the very fact of providing that information to the Russian side,” he added. (Xinhua)