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Merkel: Evidence of Chemical Weapons Use in Syria 'Clear'

© AFP 2023 / Odd ANDERSENGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a joint press conference with Ukraine's President after talks about fragile truce on April 10, 2018 in Berlin
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a joint press conference with Ukraine's President after talks about fragile truce on April 10, 2018 in Berlin - Sputnik International
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a briefing with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and touched upon a number of issues, including the alleged chemical attack in Syria's Douma and Nord Stream 2 pipeline project.

Evidence of the use of chemical weapons in Syria is “clear and explicit”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday.

"I believe that the evidence that chemical weapons were used there is very clear and very explicit. From my point of view, this can be verified again, but this cannot help us in assessing this case," Merkel said at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

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On April 7, several Syrian opposition online media outlets reported, citing militants that the Syrian Army had used chlorine in the town of Douma and killed up to 70 people.

The Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria on Sunday categorically refuted the reports. The Center's representatives visited the place of the alleged attack and questioned local doctors, who said that they had not received individuals with symptoms of any chemical poisoning.

On Nord Stream 2 Pipeline

While speaking about the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Merkel said that the project couldn't go ahead without clarity on Ukraine's role as a gas transit route.

"Right, and I said this yesterday in a phone conversation with Russian President [Vladimir Putin] that it is impossible if because of Nord Stream-2 Ukraine will lose its significance as a gas transit country… I clearly indicated that the Nord Stream-2 project is impossible without our clarity about the future role of Ukrainian transit, from our viewpoint," Merkel said.

"So you can see that it is not just an economic issue but there are also political considerations," she noted.

Nord Stream 2 is a joint project run by Russia's Gazprom together with France's Engie, Austria's OMV AG, Anglo-Dutch Royal Dutch Shell, and Germany's Uniper and Wintershall. It will deliver 55 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas per year to the EU, through a pipeline across the Baltic Sea to Germany.

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