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Syria expressed grave concern over the fact that the correspondence of a member of the fact-finding team to the Office of the Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) recently leaked, which referred to the manipulation of the OPCW report on the alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma, Damascus countryside, The facts in it.
Ambassador Bassam Sabbagh, Syria's Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said during the 24th session of the Conference of States Parties in The Hague that the alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma was used as a pretext for three Western countries - the United States, France and Britain - to launch a brutal military aggression against the sovereignty of the territories Therefore, the investigations of the fact-finding mission and the conclusions contained in its report have a very sensitive and important implications, stressing that these three countries are now trying to press for a blackout on the contents of the leaked document and vigorously defending the missing credibility of the report. To justify its aggression.
Ambassador Sabbagh called on the organization to hold a hearing and a discussion with all members of the fact-finding mission team who had always participated in the investigations so that States parties could discuss all views as provided for in Article 62 of the Verification Annex to the Convention, calling on the organization to exercise maximum transparency and impartiality in its work. He stressed that those who will hinder the holding of this meeting are afraid of its results and fear of exposing the practices of distortion and fraud in the report of the Duma incident, which was fabricated.
Syria's request was supported by a number of countries, notably Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Belarus and Nicaragua.
The Daily Mail revealed earlier that a leaked email indicated that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons had manipulated a report on an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Damascus countryside in April 2018 to accuse the Syrian Arab Army of it and justify the US-British-French aggression against Syria at the time.
A scientist hired by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) says in a leaked e-mail that investigations on the ground in Douma have not found strong evidence of the alleged gas attack, the newspaper said in a report published November 23, stressing that the facts were deliberately concealed. In the organization's reports.
Ian Henderson, an expert from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), admitted in May that the results of the OPCW's official report on alleged chemical weapons attacks in Douma were "incompatible with reality and contrary to engineering expertise."
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called yesterday for the OPCW member states to be given the opportunity to ask experts who questioned the credibility of the OPCW's findings on the alleged chemical attack in Douma.