(26 Sep 2019) U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the State Department has not engaged in any improper activity regarding Ukraine and is focused squarely on trying to help Kyiv combat corruption.
Speaking in New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, Pompeo told reporters on Thursday in New York that to the best of his knowledge all actions taken State Department officials were "entirely appropriate."
He did not address claims from President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani that the State Department instructed him to reach out to Ukrainian officials.
Additionally, Pompeo also said the United States concluded the Syrian government used chemical weapons in an attack in May.
Pompeo said U.S. officials had determined that Syrian President Bashar Assad's government had used chlorine in the attack on opposition forces in Idlib province on May 19.
He said the U.S. would provide an additional $4.5 million to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to fund investigations into other instances of suspected Syrian chemical weapons use.
Pompeo also called on the Assad government to release thousands of unjustly detained prisoners, including American journalist Austin Tice. Tice has been missing and presumed held by the government for seven years.
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