LONDON (Sputnik) — The UK refutes any claims of the alleged supply of lethal equipment, including chemical weapons, to conflicting sides in Syria, a spokesperson for the British Foreign Office told Sputnik on Wednesday.
"The UK supplies no lethal equipment to any party in Syria,” the official said.
Earlier in the day, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad accused US and UK-based companies of supplying toxic agents to terrorists, adding that CS and CN substances, allegedly produced by NonLethal Technologies and Chemring Defence, were found in Aleppo and Damascus.