UK, US, France waging media war throughout Syrian conflict: envoy

The United States, the United Kingdom and France have been waging an information war since the beginning of the conflict in Syria in order to prolong it, mainly through claims that Damascus is using chemical weapons, Syrian Ambassador to Russia Riyad Haddad told Sputnik on Thursday.

"The countries that support terrorism, the United Kingdom, France, under the leadership of the United States, since the very beginning on the terrorist war, forced on Syria, are using the information warfare, fabricating facts, confusing, lying, misinforming the public opinion, and it is done to prolong the war under the pretext of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Armed Forces," the ambassador said.

Haddad mentioned the Western information warfare campaign in the context of multiple allegations leveled against Russia by London over the recent poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal, currently treated for exposure to a chemical substance.

"It comes as no surprise that they are using the same pretext against Russia, but with a different script," the diplomat said.

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