MOSCOW. April 14 (Interfax) - Russia and Syria are insisting on the need to dispatch an international group of experts to Syria as soon as possible in order to investigate the chemical incident in the Idlib governorate, but the relevant decision has not been made thus far, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
"We and the government in Damascus have been consistently speaking in favor of an international expert group's soonest possible visit both to the site of the chemical incident in Khan Sheikhun and the Shayrat base, which became the target of the aggressive attack by the U.S.," Ryabkov told reporters on Friday.
A decision on this issue has not been adopted so far, he said.
"The logic is clear. If, as the U.S. claims, ammunition with toxic substances was loaded on to airplanes at the Shayrat base, consequently equipment and traces should be present there," Ryabkov said.
Moscow wants the truth to be established and is not interested "in the games that the U.S., the United Kingdom, France and other countries continue to play in order to further their geopolitical goals," he said.
"We are interested in the fact that visits to Khan Sheikhun and the Shayrat base should take place as soon as possible," Ryabkov said.