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11:32 15.04.2018(updated 12:00 15.04.2018)Get
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Earlier, Leader of the UK Labour Party Jeremy
Corbyn has criticized UK Prime Minister Theresa May for her decision to carry
out strikes on Syria without first getting parliamentary approval.
"I say to the foreign secretary, I say
to the prime minister, where is the legal basis for this?"
Corbyn said.
"The legal basis… would have to be self
defence or the authority of the UN Security Council. The humanitarian
intervention is a legally debatable concept at the present time," he
said in an interview with the BBC.
He added that if there is evidence that Syria's
Assad used chemical weapons against his own people, British government
must demand answers from him.
Earlier, Jeremy Corbyn stated that the UK should be
playing a leadership role to bring about a ceasefire in the
conflict, and that it shouldn't take instructions from Washington or put
British military personnel in harm's way.
On Saturday, the United States, the United Kingdom
and France launched strikes on a number of targets in Syria
in response to the alleged chemical attack in the Damascus' suburban city
of Douma.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the
three countries fired over 100 cruise as well as air-to-surface
missiles.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry has slammed the joint
US, British and French strikes as a "brutal, barbaric
aggression," saying that the attack "aims at hindering the OPCW
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons mission's work
and preempting its results."
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