New York-SANA
The permanent Russian mission to the United Nations announced that on January 20, the UN Security Council will discuss the report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on the alleged chemical attack in Douma in April 2018.
"Russia has submitted an initiative to hold a meeting of the members of the United Nations Security Council in the form of (Aria) to discuss the situation surrounding the organization's report," the Russian news agency TASS quoted the mission's press spokesman Fyodor Strygovsky as telling reporters.
The Arya format sessions are meetings of a very informal and confidential nature that enable members of the Security Council to exchange views in an open and private manner with persons whom the meeting member or members who convene also who assume the role of facilitator or the meeting organizers believe it is useful to listen to or who wish to Deliver a message to them.
"This meeting will focus on investigating this incident, which was carried out by the fact-finding mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ... The meeting is scheduled to be held on the afternoon of January 20," Strygovsky said.
The Wikileaks website revealed in December of new evidence of the OPCW's tampering with the final report on the alleged chemical attack in Douma and the publication of four documents revealing that "toxicologists excluded that the deaths were due to exposure to chlorine" and that another document was shown based on Emails exchanged between members of the OPCW that a senior WHO official, Sebastian Praha, has ordered the removal of the report, which contains irregularities about the alleged chemical attack, from the organization’s archives and deleted all its traces.
It is noteworthy that the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed last March that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ignored information provided by Russia and Syria about the fabrication of the use of chemical weapons in Douma raises concern and its aim is to justify the US-British-French aggression on Syria.