Damascus, Sept 4 (ANI): France has said any use of chemical or bacterial weapons by Syria would trigger 'massive and lightning fast' responses from Western nations.
"We talk about this, in particular with our American and British partners, and follow it closely on a day-to-day basis," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told BFM television.
"Our response... would be massive and lightning fast," Fabius said, adding chemical weapons were a 'big, big risk' in the Syrian crisis.
Syria acknowledged in July that it had chemical and biological weapons.
This prompted President Barack Obama to threaten 'enormous consequences' if Damascus even moved such weapons in a menacing way, News24 reports.
According to the paper, when asked whether Western powers agreed on what form a response to the use of chemical weapons could take, Fabius said he believed they would be united.
"Russia has been very firm on this point and the Chinese have the same position," the report quoted him, as saying. (ANI)
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