Moscow-Sana
The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the western countries and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons are afraid to discuss the activities, goals and tasks of the so-called "investigation and identification team" whose anti-Syrian conclusions are pre-programmed.
The ministry’s spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, said in a video conference today, that a meeting of the Security Council should have been held on May 12th, through the technique of “video conference” on Syria with the participation of the Director-General of the Technical Secretariat of the organization and Western countries intend in this session to continue to impose conclusions The fabrication included in the first report of the Commission of Inquiry and Identification formed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on the Security Council.
Zakharova pointed out that Russia wants to obtain from the secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons accurate explanations on all the highly doubtful circumstances of collecting and storing samples until the moment of their submission to the investigation committee related to the use of chemical weapons in Syria, pointing out that it is important to show the actual, but not fabricated, reasons for the technical secretariat’s failure The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has accepted the acceptance of a Syrian invitation to send experts to the town of Latamna, in which the chemical weapon was allegedly used in March 2017, and to the Air Force Base, from which the alleged attack was launched.
Zakharova said that Russia, aware of the vital issue of the use of chemical weapons by terrorists, was ready for an open and rich talk, and therefore requested that the session be of a public nature, allowing clarification of the initial aspects of the Director-General directly relating to the work of the Investigation and Identification Commission and the special mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Weapons Chemical in general, but the western countries, contrary to their allegations regarding the necessity of increasing transparency in the work of the Security Council, simply refused to hold a public discussion of issues that are uncomfortable for them.
Last night, Russia and China boycotted a closed video meeting in the Security Council on Western allegations of using chemical weapons in Syria.
Zakharova added that “the leadership of the Technical Committee of the Organization of Chemical Weapons and Western Countries, which always publicly declares its absolute confidence in this committee, simply fears a concrete and professional talk about the activity of the so-called investigation committee that it has set up itself and its goals and basic tasks and that its anti-Syrian conclusions are programmed in advance as The facts show.
It is noteworthy that many leaks from current and former officials of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons appeared during the past months, which proves the deliberate manipulation of the organization's recent report on the alleged use of chemical weapons in the town of Latamna in 2017 and describes it deficient and politicized and that it is marred by fatal scientific errors.