Source : ''Israel'' National News
Damascus will not use chemical weapons against its own citizens, or in the event of war with its neighbor Israel, Syria's Information Minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said Syria would not resort to chemical weapons even if it had to go to war with Israel and use "all resources," reported Beirut-based Al Akhbar, citing the Interfax news agency.
"Even if Syria does have chemical weapons, our leadership and our military w use them either against Syrians or against Israelis, above all for moral reason secondarily on legal and political grounds," Zoubi reportedly said at a Mosco university.
Syria last year acknowledged that it had chemical and biological weapons an could use them if foreign countries intervened.
The United States has warned that any use of chemical weapons in Syria's civ would be a "red line" that could trigger intervention.
The Syrian government and rebels each accused the other of launching a che attack near the northern city of Aleppo last month.
A top Israel intelligence officer said Tuesday that the Syrian regime has alrea chemical weapons in the civil war.
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