19 August, 2017
During a press conference in the Syrian Foreign Ministry's main office in the capital Damascus, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said on Wednesday that toxic agents found in the cities of Aleppo and Damascus were made by U.S. and United Kingdom companies, Syrian's official news agency SANA reported.
During a press conference Wednesday Mr. Mekdad noted that the weapons included hand grenades and munitions for grenade launchers filled with the CN and CS gas. The discovered chemical munitions shown in the transparency were produced by Federal Laboratories on the USA territory.
According to the Syrian deputy foreign minister, the chemical agents were found at terrorists' depots both in Aleppo and in liberated districts in the eastern suburb of Damascus. "And the chemical agents were produced by Cherming Defence UK and NonLethal Technologies (the USA)", Mekdad said.
Syria says the US, Britain and their allies are supporting terrorists in the war-torn Arab country by supplying them with toxic agents and other kinds of weapons.
Irritant agents like the one Mikdad said Syrian forces have discovered are banned for conventional warfare, but allowed for riot fighting domestically.
Chemical weapons have been known to be present in the Syrian conflict, with the Syrian government saying that the armed US -backed militants have used them on numerous occasions.
In June, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons claimed the banned nerve agent sarin had been used in an attack in northern Syria in April. "The information that the Syrian Foreign Ministry has made public, once again exposes the hypocrisy of the US-led coalition and proves that the main goal of their operation is to overthrow Bashar al-Assad's regime".
