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The head of the Russian delegation to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Oleg Ryazantsev, said that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has never been a common house within which all member states work freely, establish respectful dialogue and reach solutions to urgent issues.
"The performance of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is worsening, while tendencies of ostracism and exclusion have grown, the practice based on the principle of unanimous decision-making has faded, and the atmosphere within the platform has become severely politicized," TASS news agency quoted Ryazantsev as saying in a statement posted on the organization's website today.
Ryazantsev added that the reason for all this is the desire of a small group of countries to subject international law to the laws invented by these countries, referring in this regard to the decision taken in 2018 to give the technical secretariat of the organization the task of identifying those responsible for the use of chemical weapons and establishing the so-called investigation and identification team The illegitimate one, who claimed “Syria’s spread of chemical weapons.”
The Russian official added that the OPCW's stability was undermined by the campaign led by a small group of countries after the alleged poisoning incident of Alexei Navalny in August last year. Russia had to investigate the incident in cooperation with the technical secretariat of the organization, pointing out that Britain, France, Germany and Sweden were on the line The first in this campaign and they are the most who later tried to hide the truth about the accident.
Ryazantsev pointed out that, contrary to the promises made by the presidency of the technical secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Sciences during the past year, it was never the house that includes all member states and they work freely and respectfully.
