Meeting in Italy, the G7 foreign affairs ministers said on Tuesday 11 April that the US action against Shayrat Airfield in response to the chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun in Syria (see EUROPE 11764) had been "a carefully calibrated, limited in scope response to this war crime" (see EUROPE 11764).
The action "was directed against Syrian military targets directly connected to the 4 April chemical weapons attack in order to prevent and deter the proliferation and use of deadly chemical...