PM says he asked Putin to get chemical weapons out of Syria

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office confirms he spoke with Russian President Vladmir Putin, but doesn’t comment on the reported scolding he received for official Israeli remarks attributing Tuesday’s gas attack to Syrian President Bashar Assad.

According to the Prime Minister’s Office, during the call, Netanyahu told Putin that the international community needs to “complete the effort to remove chemical weapons from Syria, as was agreed upon in 2013” and expressed sympathy for the bombing of a subway in Saint Petersburg, Russia, earlier this week.

The Kremlin said that Putin also chastised Netanyahu for comments that blamed Assad for the reported sarin gas attack, presumably referring specifically to remarks made by Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Thursday.