New York-Sana
Russia's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dmitry Poliansky, confirmed that the hostile Western decision that was passed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons against Syria last month constitutes a dangerous precedent against a sovereign member state.
"The decision issued at the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Limitation Treaty to suspend some of the rights and privileges of the Syrian Arab Republic constitutes an unprecedented precedent," Poliansky said during a session of the Security Council yesterday, explaining that "for the first time it is done in an organization." Banning chemical weapons suspends the rights of a sovereign state known to be fully bound by the ban treaty.
And Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations, Bassam Sabbagh, confirmed yesterday that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons witnessed, on the twenty-first of last April, a serious development in its work process through the adoption of the 25th session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Ban Treaty a hostile decision against Syria as a result of blackmail and pressure exerted by the United States. France, Britain and Germany are in a precedent, the first in the history of this organization, by suspending the rights of a member state that joined it voluntarily and cooperated with its technical secretariat in a transparent, effective and constructive manner over the past eight years.
"This decision deals a new blow to the authority of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons," Poliansky added, warning that the consequences of this "irresponsible move" would be revealed later.
The Russian official stressed that the pressure exerted by Western countries on Syria is provocative and said: It has become quite clear that the goal that the supporters of this decision is trying to achieve is to provoke Damascus.