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Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, reiterated that some Western governments refuse to acknowledge the established fact that Syria has fulfilled all its obligations arising from its accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention and has destroyed its entire stockpile since 2014, indicating that these governments are continuing their hostile stances against Syria and continue Covering terrorists ’crimes and their use of chemical weapons and toxic gases against civilians in them.
During a session of the Security Council today, al-Jaafari stressed that Syria has repeatedly confirmed that it has not and will not use chemical weapons and that it is committed to cooperating with the Prohibition Organization, its technical secretariat and the initial declaration evaluation team to settle the outstanding issues in order to permanently close this file as soon as possible, explaining that for this purpose it has provided Syria, on the sixteenth of last month, its 82 monthly report to the Technical Secretariat on activities related to the destruction of chemical weapons and their production facilities. The tripartite cooperation agreement between Syria, the United Nations and the ban organization was extended for six months, starting from the 30th of last September, and it was held during the period between 28/9 and 1/10/2020 The 23rd round of consultations between the Syrian government and the declaration evaluation team, which visited Damascus and fully implemented its program through the full assistance provided by Syria.
Al-Jaafari pointed out that Syria's cooperation was met by Western countries ’continued escalation by promoting illegal mechanisms that were passed in violation of the law and the provisions of the ban agreement such as the“ investigation and identification team ”and the American administration presented a draft resolution in the Security Council aimed at marketing lies and imposing them by pressure and threat. Which confirms that some Western countries endeavor to use this platform to serve their expansionist and aggressive agendas, and reveals once again the duplicity with which the US administration deals with the issue of chemical weapons, especially since it is the only country party to the Chemical Weapons Convention that still possesses huge stockpiles of these weapons since World War II and refuses to destroy them Pointing out that what adds to this hypocrisy scandal is that the successive American administrations and their allies in NATO do not come from near or far to mention the nuclear, chemical and biological arsenal that the Israeli occupation possesses and that it remains so far outside the relevant international agreements, which threatens peace and security in our region. And the whole world.
Al-Jaafari pointed out that representatives of some Western governments are deaf to scientific facts that do not accept skepticism for nothing other than because they are intrusive in their hostile stances and seek to cover up the crimes of terrorist organizations in Syria and their use of chemical weapons and toxic gases against civilians, as well as refuse to acknowledge the established truth confirmed by the head of the joint mission. To get rid of chemical weapons in Syria, Sigrid Kaag when she presented her final report to the Security Council in June 2014, in which she affirmed that Syria had committed and fulfilled all its pledges, which led to the destruction of its entire chemical stockpile on board an American ship and others, which was also confirmed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that it had been destroyed All 27 production facilities, and therefore, Syria has abided by its obligations in letter and spirit, and no longer possesses any chemical weapons, and this is the proven fact that should be relied upon.
Al-Jaafari expressed Syria’s regret that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 in recognition of its work in eliminating chemical weapons, including helping Syria get rid of its chemical stockpile, has turned into a mere tool in the hands of a handful of Western countries to target specific countries, including Syria. This is what makes this organization lose much of its credibility, professionalism and technical character and pushes us as member states to work to re-correct the course of that organization to fulfill the desired role.
Al-Jaafari indicated that the activities of the prohibition organization related to Syria and many of its reports showed that miracles are still possible and can be manufactured in the organization's laboratories in The Hague and in some Western intelligence centers and used to target member states of the United Nations as was the case in Iraq, which the US administration at that time relied on lies It was promoted by the Security Council for its invasion, occupation, destruction of its institutions, and plundering of its wealth and capabilities.
Al-Jaafari addressed the members of the Security Council, saying: Will you allow similar lies to be passed on to justify targeting and destroying Syria and other countries, as some have destroyed Libya ... Will you allow facts to be buried in United Nations basements that do not open sixty years ago, as was the case with the documents of the UNMOVIC and UNSCOM missions and the reports of Hans Blix and Scott Ritter in Iraq and thus ensuring that two generations are not informed of the facts related to the US-British invasion of Iraq, indicating that some may repeat the assassination of the British expert in biological weapons David Kelly, who was one of the United Nations inspectors in Iraq and was killed and allegedly committed suicide after he told the BBC “The British government that his country's government exaggerated the talk about Iraq's military capabilities and the danger of its biological weapons to convince the British people of the necessity of waging war on Iraq.
Al-Jaafari renewed Syria’s call on the member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to raise their voice against the politicization of the organization’s mission and work to address the politicization and serious flaws in its work that undermine the status and credibility of the organization. The agendas of governments want to keep the so-called "chemical file" as a pressure card on Syria and its allies.
Al-Jaafari noted the initiative of the delegations of Russia and China to hold an informal meeting of the Security Council on the 28th of last month according to the formula "Aria Formula" on the chemical file in Syria, explaining that the meeting was an important opportunity to hear the testimonies and briefings of experts specializing in related fields, including Ian Henderson, one of more Inspectors of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have experience where he worked for the organization for more than twelve years and was the leader of the team that participated in the investigation of the Douma incident and visited Syria within the missions of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons many times and was expelled from the organization due to his disclosure of tampering in the investigations into allegations of the use of the chemical in Syria and Professor Theodore Postol of the Institute of Technology at the University of Massachusetts in America and the journalist Aaron died from the "The Gray Zone" website, which revealed two weeks ago the involvement of British intelligence in the fabrication of the anti-Syrian media campaign.
Al-Jaafari stated that the documented and extremely important scientific briefings and information provided by these experts demonstrated the extent of the extreme politicization imposed by some Western governments on the work of the ban organization to use it as a platform to fabricate accusations and to justify aggression against Syria in a single or three times at other times and to complete what they were unable to achieve through their investment. In terrorism, their unlimited and multifaceted support for it, and the attempt to suffocate the Syrian people with unilateral coercive economic measures because they do not want the truth and invest in terrorism, misinformation and aggression.