German Defense Ministry spokesman Jens Flosdorff said on Monday that he was "not willing to speculate" about the possibility of Germany joining Western strikes against the Syrian government
BERLIN (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 10th September, 2018) German Defense Ministry spokesman Jens Flosdorff said on Monday that he was "not willing to speculate" about the possibility of Germany joining Western strikes against the Syrian government.
"I do not want to speculate, many media [outlets] have reported about such a possibility. But all this is tied to a specific situation ... We have not reached this point so far," Flosdorff told a briefing.
The Bild newspaper has reported that the German Defense Ministry was mulling the possibility of joining potential US, UK and French strikes on Syria in case of a chemical weapons attack.
Meanwhile, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert, also present at the briefing, said that "the government was in contact with its partners and allies on the situation in Syria's Idlib," stressing that the involvement of the country's armed forces in a military operation must be approved by the parliament.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in late August that terrorists of the Tahrir al-Sham group (formerly Jabhat Fatah al Sham terror organization, banned in Russia) were preparing a false-flag attack in Idlib to later accuse Damascus of using chemical weapons.
In April, Syrian opposition as well as Western states accused Damascus of being responsible for an alleged chemical weapons attack in the city of Duma, which led to a series of missile strikes by the United States, the United Kingdom and France on Syria.
Damascus as well as Moscow refuted the allegations saying that the attack was plotted by militants to discredit the government troops.
