US and Turkey plan for 'worst Syria scenario' - Middle East. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has said her country is setting up a working group with Turkey to plan for worst-case scenarios in Syria, including a possible chemical weapons attack on the government's opponents.
In a joint news conference in Istanbul with Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's foreign minister, Clinton said that the group will co-ordinate military, intelligence and political responses to any potential fallout in Syria. The US and Turkey agreed on the need to plan for "the horrible event that chemical weapons [are] used," Clinton said on Saturday. "What would that mean in terms of response, humanitarian and medical emergency assistance and, of course, what needs to be done to secure those stocks from ever being used or falling into the wrong hands? " In July, Syrian foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi ruled out the use of chemical weapons on Syrians, saying they would only be used in the event of foreign military intervention in Syria. English pravda.ru: Russian news and analysis. ITAR-TASS.