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EU Commission Chief 'Understands' Deterrence of Chemical Attacks in Syria

© AFP 2023 / Thierry CharlierEuropean Union Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker talks to the media at the end of an European Union Summit held at the EU Council building in Brussels, Friday March 18, 2016.
European Union Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker talks to the media at the end of an European Union Summit held at the EU Council building in Brussels, Friday March 18, 2016. - Sputnik International
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European Commission President "understands" the need to deter chemical attacks in Syria, the statement was released on Friday amid a deadly US missile strike on a Syrian military airfield.

A Syrian man is taken by civil defence workers to a small hospital in the town of Maaret al-Noman following a suspected toxic gas attack in Khan Sheikhun, a nearby rebel-held town in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province - Sputnik International
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BRUSSELS (Sputnik) — European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker "understands" the need to deter chemical attacks in Syria, the European Commission said in a statement Friday following a deadly US missile strike on a Syrian military airfield.

"The repeated use of such weapons must be answered. He understands efforts to deter further attacks," the statement reads.

It adds that Washington had "informed the EU that these strikes were limited and seek to deter further chemical weapons atrocities."

The United States launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Syrian military airfield in Ash Sha'irat near Homs late Thursday. US President Donald Trump said the attack was a response to the alleged chemical weapons use in the city of Khan Sheyhun in Idlib province on Tuesday, which Washington blames on Damascus.

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