Polish diplomats were aware of US plans to strike Syria base: spokesman
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
07.04.2017 11:23
Polish diplomats were informed in advance of US plans to launch a strike at a Syrian military base from which Washington says a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched earlier this week, according to a Polish government spokesman.
Polish government spokesman Rafał Bochenek. Photo: PAP/Jakub Kamiński
Spokesman Rafał Bochenek said Prime Minister Beata Szydło will on Friday hold a series of meetings with ministers and the president in connection with the US attack, adding that the Polish government is monitoring the situation.
"The Prime Minister will meet today with [Foreign] Minister Witold Waszczykowski and [Defence] Minister Antoni Macierewicz, and will also speak with President Andrzej Duda,” Bochenek added.
Bochenek said the Polish government supports all efforts aimed at stabilising the situation in the Middle East and ending the war in Syria.
"We believe that the actions that the Americans are taking now will in fact help calm the situation, because a red line has been crossed in recent days," he added.
American officials said that two US warships fired 59 cruise missiles from the eastern Mediterranean at the Shayrat Air Base in Syria controlled by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad following a poison gas attack in a rebel-held area on Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the strike had damaged relations between Washington and Moscow.
A chemical attack earlier this week killed at least 70 people, many of them children, in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun. The Syrian government has denied it was responsible.
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Source: IAR