Syria's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday slammed the U.S. State Department's recent statement accusing the Syrian government of carrying out a chemical attack in a former rebel-held area in 2013, according to the Syrian state news agency SANA.

The ministry dismissed the U.S. statement as "baseless allegations... through which the U.S. tried to distort facts and spread lies" about the alleged chemical attack in the Eastern Ghouta countryside of the capital Damascus in 2013.

The U.S. State Department made the accusation in a recent statement alleging that the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used "nerve agent sarin" in the Ghouta district of Damascus to kill more than 1,400 people.

The Syrian foreign ministry, in its response Wednesday, said that the statement clearly reflects "the U.S. continued hostile method against Syria which comes to cover its failure in Afghanistan and its support to terrorism that Syria encounters."

"The government of the Syrian Arab Republic reaffirms once again that it stands against the use of that kind of weapons in any place, at any time and under any circumstance and by any side as it is an issue that opposes Syria's principles and moral," said the ministry.