It means that the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), a body formed to learn who was responsible for chemical weapons attacks on civilians in Syria, expires at midnight Thursday. “If it is necessary, there is the United States of America,” she added. The United States will not accept Syria’s use of chemical weapons. It has blamed both the Syrian government and militants of the Islamic State for using chemical weapons in the war that grew out of protests in 2011. “You bear the responsibility if the mechanism cannot be salvaged.”But ambassadors of the United States and its allies were scathing in criticizing Russia.

Source: National Post November 17, 2017 15:50 UTC