INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
US, British and French air strikes on Syria are a violation of international law, Russian lawmaker said.Moscow:
US, British and French air strikes on Syria are a violation of international law and are likely meant to prevent investigators from the
global chemical weapons watchdog from doing their work, a senior Russian lawmaker was quoted by Interfax as saying on Saturday.The chairman
of the international affairs committee of Russia's upper house of parliament, Konstantin Kosachev, described the air strikes as a groundless
attack on a sovereign government, Interfax said."It's also highly likely an attempt to create complications for the Organisation for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons mission which was just starting its work in Syria's Douma, or an attempt to completely derail it," Kosachev
was quoted as saying.None of the air strikes hit zones where Russian air defence systems protect the Russian bases of Tartus and Hmeimim,
Russian news agencies cited the Ministry of Defence as saying.© Thomson Reuters 2018(Except for the headline, this story has not been
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