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Russia has expressed its concern about the discussions taking place in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) regarding the allegations of Syria's use of chemical weapons, calling on the organization to work within the framework of the Chemical Weapons Convention and to abandon remote, unrealistic and suspicious investigations.
A few days ago, Russia demanded the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to conduct an honest and reliable investigation into the alleged chemical attack in the city of Douma in the Damascus countryside in 2018, stressing that the success of the organization's work depends on this matter.
The Russian news agency TASS quoted the permanent representative of Russia to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Alexander Shulgin as saying during the ninety-sixth session of the Executive Council of the organization today in The Hague that the manipulation revealed in the final report on the alleged incident in Douma caused serious damage to the organization, calling on the technical secretariat. To look into what happened because the silence and the belittling cast doubt on the work of the fact-finding mission and other incidents in Syria.
WikiLeaks previously published four documents leaked from the Chemical Ban Organization that exclude the use of chlorine gas in Douma, and reveal that toxicologists have ruled out that deaths were due to exposure to chlorine.
Shulgin indicated that Russia is concerned about how things are going in the organization, stressing that Syria is showing openness and unconditional willingness to close cooperation with the organization's technical secretariat, as evidenced by the next round of bilateral consultations held the previous day, adding .. But there are forces trying in a way. It is artificial to slow down the removal of issues from the agenda, which has exhausted the debate around it and demands, via double standards, Syrians demands demands that are not imposed on other countries.
Shulgin indicated that Russia supports cooperation between Syria and the OIC because such nature of work would facilitate the search for solutions to all open issues related to the Syrian declaration, pointing out that with the political will of all participants in this process, more gradual progress can be made in this. Trend As the recent closure of a number of important issues has shown, it is necessary not to shift the focus towards negative trends, but to encourage positive dynamics on this path in every possible way.
A leak of an official at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons revealed in March of last year the organization’s management’s involvement in launching a malicious and disgraceful attack against two veteran inspectors, which proved the incorrectness of the organization’s narrative regarding the alleged attack in Douma and the accusation of the Syrian Arab Army to justify the US-British-French aggression against Syria at the time.
According to the official, the findings of the inspectors and the irregularities they uncovered severely undermined the claims of Western countries that the Syrian army carried out the chemical attack, indicating that the organization's management excluded their scientific work and rewrote its first report and prevented them from adding any other interventions to the investigation after they revealed burying evidence and forgery. Other.
On the other hand, Shulgin stressed that the suggestion that experts of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons travel to Russia to investigate the incident of the Russian blogger Alexei Navalny has lost its importance.
Shulgin stressed that the Russian side did not withdraw the proposal for experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to travel to Russia, but only stated that in view of the non-constructive approach that the Technical Secretariat followed, the visit had lost its importance, adding .. that the Technical Secretariat apparently continues to implement the political directives of a party in The framework of the frenzied anti-Russian campaign that unfolded over the situation with Navalny's European NATO allies.
Shulgin concluded his speech by saying, “In the end, the Technical Secretariat did not respond to our request,” considering this very disappointing for Russia.
