Story highlights The council meeting comes a day after the United States struck a Syrian airbaseThe United Kingdom came out strongly in support of the US action(CNN) US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley warned Friday that the US "is prepared to do more" in response to Syria's use of chemical weapons. Speaking one day after the US launched strikes against the airbase that was home to warplanes that carried out a chemical attack against civilians earlier this week, Haley also slammed Russia for supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "The joint investigative mechanism has found beyond any doubt that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons against its own people multiple times," Haley said. Reiterating comments she made on Wednesday , Haley said, "there are times when states are compelled to take their own action" and deemed preventing chemical weapons from being spread and used to be "in our vital national security interest." Haley also said the Russian government "bears considerable responsibility" for Assad's use of chemical weapons.

Source: CNN April 07, 2017 17:17 UTC