The United Kingdom stressed that the Syrian regime almost certainly carried out chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun. "The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has now confirmed that sarin nerve gas was indeed used in a chemical attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in northern Syria on 4 April," British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said in a statement. "This confirmation cannot be ignored. The UN-OPCW Joint Investigative Mechanism will now work to identify who was responsible. As I have said previously, the UK's own assessment is that the Assad regime almost certainly carried out this abominable attack. I urge our international partners to unite behind the need to hold those responsible for this atrocity to account," he added.
