by Itunuoluwa Adebo
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States will “hold to account” any government that commits atrocities against innocent people, as key US allies met to work out a common stance on Syria.
Tillerson spoke at an Italian war memorial before a meeting of foreign ministers from the G7 industrialized nations, which was dominated by the diplomatic fallout from the unexpected US missile strike on a Syrian airbase last week.
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We dedicate ourselves to holding to account any and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere in the world,” Tillerson said in a short statement commemorating a 1944 German Nazi massacre in Sant’Anna di Stazzema.
Diplomats were attempting to agree a common line before Tillerson meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow later this week.
According to the BBC, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the priority for the G7 summit was to give a “clear mandate” to Tillerson as he headed to Moscow.
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