Boris Johnson
Foreign Minister of Britain, Boris Johnson said that in the case of a new chemical attack in Syria, his government is likely to provide assistance and support to Washington, including military force. About it reports Reuters.
“If the actions of the Assad regime, again forced the Americans to intervene and they asked us to help, we will be extremely difficult to refuse them”, — explained the Minister. He said that it is first and foremost about participation in combat operations.
Thus, according to the Minister, he can’t say yet, will such actions approval of Parliament, which in 2013 has blocked a proposal on the participation of the RAF in the bombing of Syria.
The US launched an airstrike against Syrian airbase shirt in the province of HOMS in the night of 7 April. Two warships of the United States in the Mediterranean sea launched at least 50 Tomahawk missiles in response to allegedly conducted by government forces the Syrian attack with chemical weapons in Khan Shaykhun, Idlib province on April 4.