Will the UN do it's job In Syrian Gas attack investigation?

Fifty-nine Tomahawk missiles, launched before dawn from warships in the eastern Mediterranean, threatened hopes for Russian-American talks just ahead of the first major meeting between Washington and Russia.

Secretary of state Rex Tillerson will travel to Moscow on Tuesday, just three days after the US ambassador to the UN said Russia shouldered blame in the chemical weapons attack.

The UN Security Council has met to discuss a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed at least 72 of people, including 20 children.
Britain, France, and the United States presented a draft resolution demanding a full investigation of the attack on a rebel-held town in Idlib province, but Russia defended its ally in Damascus and said the text was "categorically unacceptable".

Ahead of the emergency session on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Russia's foreign ministry said the draft resolution was "anti-Syrian", adding it "pre-empts the results of an investigation and just immediately designates the guilty".

Syria's permanent representative to the UN Munzer Munzer rejected what he called a "falsification of the facts" in Khan Sheikhoun, adding that "terrorist groups" had gained access to "toxic chemicals" with Turkish government assistance.

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