New York-SANA
Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzya, confirmed that what happened in preparing the report of the fact-finding mission regarding allegations of the use of chemical weapons in Douma represents an ugly scandal, as its final version was simply rewritten under pressure from Western countries, especially with regard to chemical and toxicological studies and witness testimonies. .
During a session of the UN Security Council, Nebenzia was surprised that the fact-finding mission and the illegal investigation team had violated the basic principle of collecting and securing evidence, and how the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Fernando Arias, signed documents whose conclusions are based on information from a third party, such as the White Helmets, which does not hide its bias, asking, “Does The working methods of the Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have changed.. Are the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention itself no longer appropriate as a guideline?
Nebenzia pointed out that the report of the investigation team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ignores the scientific, logical and causal links, pointing out that the incident that occurred in the city of Douma has become for the UN Security Council "something like the pipe that former US Secretary of State Colin Powell waved inside these walls 20 years ago." exactly a year.”
Nebenzia stressed that the United States is lying, claiming that Russia prevented OPCW inspectors from reaching the city of Douma in April 2018, explaining that “people now remember that on April 10, Damascus sent an official invitation to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to send inspectors to the city of Douma.” Those who sat in Damascus did not all go to Douma, and therefore the fact that we prevented them from visiting them, as he told the representative of the United States, is an outrageous lie.
And Nebenzia stated that “on the 14th of April 2018, the United States, the United Kingdom and France launched a large-scale missile strike against Syrian civilian and military facilities, in other words, Paris, London and Washington, without waiting for any investigations, identified the culprit and punished him,” noting that “if they are interested in knowing the truth They will not attack Syria in violation of the basic rules and principles of international law, which could destroy evidence of importance to the inspectors.”
Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Bassam Sabbagh, announced before the Security Council yesterday that Syria had repeatedly warned that the wrong and unprofessional path followed by the fact-finding mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on the alleged Douma incident would lead to false conclusions, expressing regret that the mission did not By correcting its working methods, despite all calls for it to abide by the rules stipulated in the embargo agreement and the document of terms of reference that was agreed upon with Syria.
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