IRC 'shares fury' of Trump and supports his order of cruise missile strikes on Syria

Record ID: 559801

  • Title: IRC 'shares fury' of Trump and supports his order of cruise missile strikes on Syria
  • Date: 7th April 2017
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (APRIL 7, 2017) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) (SOUNDBITE) (English) INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT, DAVID MILIBAND, SAYING: "All of our staff are reporting fear on an unprecedented scale across the battle lines in Syria. The wanton nature of the attacks both chemical and conventional has left people not knowing whether they're safer in their home or in a school or hospital. And so it's wholly appropriate that this unprecedented level of international concern now be turned into a serious effort to stop the killing and to bring the process of peacemaking to a much more sustained climax."
  • Embargoed: 21st April 2017 18:14
  • Keywords: David Miliband Syria Miliband Trump Assad chemical weapons airstrike
  • Location: SHAYRAT, + NEAR HOMS, + HOMS, SYRIA / NEW YORK, NEW YORK, + PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES / AT SEA
  • City: SHAYRAT, + NEAR HOMS, + HOMS, SYRIA / NEW YORK, NEW YORK, + PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES / AT SEA
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA0056BEJ70N
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL THAT WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3
    David Miliband, former British foreign secretary and current president of the International Rescue Committee in New York on Friday (April 7) welcomed a move by the United States to strike a Syrian airbase.
    "We have about 1,400 staff working to deliver humanitarian aid inside Syria and share the fury of the president at the outrageous chemical weapons attacks on Tuesday," Miliband said. "The impunity that has existed for appalling war crimes using both chemical weapons and conventional weapons has to be challenged. But the big question for all those who are engaged in military action in Syria is what is their plan to stop the killing and bring a durable peace that can deliver a modicum of hope to the people of Syria?"
    The United States fired cruise missiles early on Friday, targeting a Syrian airbase from which U.S. President Donald Trump said a deadly chemical weapons attack had been launched. It was the first direct U.S. assault on the government of Bashar al-Assad in six years of civil war.
    At least 70 people, many of them children, were killed in Tuesday's (April 4) attack on Khan Sheikhoun by what US government sources said was sarin gas -- the deadliest chemical attack in Syria since the same nerve agent killed hundreds of people in a rebel-held area near Damascus in 2013.
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