The Hague-Sana
Syria's permanent representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Bassam Sabbagh, confirmed that the report of the so-called “investigation and identification team” issued by the Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on the eighth of this month included false conclusions based on false and fabricated information with the aim of falsifying facts and accusing the Syrian government of using materials A toxic chemical in accidents occurred on 24-25-30 March 2017 in the town of Latamna in Hama Governorate.
In a statement to the organization today, Sabbagh said in response to the report that Syria condemns in the strongest terms the conclusions contained in the report "illegal" and rejects them in form and content and considers them a translation of the desires of the United States and its Western allies to target Syria, stressing that the report's conclusions are not worthy of any confidence because they are issued by a team that is A tool to politicize the work of the organization and transform it into a platform that serves the goals of well-known countries.
Sabbagh reiterated Syria's categorical denial of the use of toxic chemicals in the town of Latamna or in any other Syrian city or village, stressing again that the high-ranking Syrian Arab Army does not possess such weapons and has never used them.
Sabbagh repeated Syria's call to the OIC countries to reject the falsehood of these fabricated new allegations and warn them of the dangers arising from the transformation of this organization into a tool for implementing the aggressive plans of the United States of America and its allies and an arena for settling political accounts with Syria that are fighting terrorism on behalf of the whole world.
Sabbagh regretted that the technical secretariat of the organization insisted on continuing to work with the same approach that lacks professionalism, transparency, credibility, and violates the most basic rules of investigation and principles of integrity, which it followed previously in the reports of the fact-finding mission, stressing that the United States continues to pursue all kinds of blackmail on member states to support the conclusions of this report proves that This report was prepared and written in advance by the American and Western intelligence services, or with instructions from them, to cover crimes of aggression committed by the United States of America and its French and British allies on Syria.
He pointed out that the launching of expressions of support by Western countries just minutes after its publication and without taking the time to study it confirms doubts in this context, explaining that Syria and a number of states parties to the arms embargo have repeatedly expressed fundamental and serious legal problems due to the Technical Secretariat’s failure to comply with the requirements contained in Verification facility for the agreement, especially its conduct of remote investigations from the Turkish territories, the absence of a logical sequence in the collection and preservation of physical evidence, the absence of a legal chain of custody of the samples, as well as relying on videos and fabricated images published on the Internet pages or Testimonies from witnesses provided by armed terrorist groups and their arm, the White Helmets organization, or by the United States of America and some Western countries originally involved in supporting Syrian terrorist groups in the service of their hostile political agenda.
He pointed out that Syria and a number of countries exposed in the past the suspicious pressures and contacts that the United States of America had with the member states of the organization during the 93rd session of the organization's executive council in the month of March before the issuance of this report. They also exposed what the American diplomats did in a number of capitals. Provocatively to promote this report in "a blatant kidnapping of the powers of the technical secretariat of the organization."
Sabbagh stressed that the United States of America committed atrocities amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity in Iraq and Afghanistan and before it in Vietnam and Japan and its occupation of lands in northeastern Syria does not qualify them to boast about speaking about accountability, and that not ending them to destroy the arsenal of their chemical weapons until now and continue postponing under pretexts She is not qualified to speak of cases of non-compliance or the fulfillment by States Parties of their obligations under the Convention.
Sabbagh demanded that this statement be an official document submitted in response to the report of the Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and put it immediately on the external server and the general site of the organization, stating that the establishment of the "investigation and identification team" was the result of the failure of several attempts by the United States of America and its Western allies to exploit the reports of the investigation mechanism This prompted the non-responsible countries to resort to tampering with the provisions and provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention and then to push for a vote during a special session of the Conference of the States Parties in June 2018 to establish this team, which had less support Half of the number of states parties to the agreement makes it an illegal team.
Sabbagh denounced the use of inappropriate language by the representative of the United States and representatives of some other countries in her statements in her description of the Syrian government in a manner that contravenes the UN Charter, the rules of international law and the etiquette of diplomatic discourse.