DHAKA: Russia and France’s foreign ministers have disagreed over who is to blame for the chemical weapons attack in Syria.

After talks in Moscow, France’s Laurent Fabius said the UN’s report into the August incident left no doubt that the Syrian government was responsible.

But Russia’s Sergei Lavrov said Moscow had ‘serious grounds’ to believe the attack had been a provocation by rebel forces.

Fabius is pressing Russia to support a Security Council resolution on Syria, reports the BBC.

‘When you look at the amount of sarin gas used, the vectors, the techniques behind such an attack, as well as other aspects, it seems to leave no doubt that the regime (of President Bashar al-Assad) is behind it,’ Fabius said at a news conference in Moscow, referring to the much-anticipated UN report which was released on Monday.

Lavrov said no decision on military intervention should be made before all the evidence had been considered.

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