Damascus-SANA
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Dr. Faisal Al-Miqdad, affirmed that sparing future generations the scourge of war, as stipulated in the United Nations Charter, collided with the evasion of the permanent Western members of the Security Council from their obligations and their endeavor to impose their influence and hegemony and fuel conflicts.
Al-Miqdad said in a video speech to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva that Syria faced an unjust war, during which well-known countries employed the weapon of terrorism against the Syrian people, embroiled tens of thousands of foreign terrorists and provided them with various types of support and weapons, including internationally prohibited ones, to serve their aggressive agendas.
Al-Miqdad added that the policies of those countries led to terrorist organizations such as “ISIS” and “Jabhat al-Nusra” acquiring chemical weapons and using them repeatedly against the Syrians, which highlights the need to address the shortcomings in international instruments and joint action away from politicization and misinformation to find a mechanism to coordinate international efforts to confront acts of terrorism. alchemist.
Al-Miqdad affirmed that Syria renews its support for the initiative put forward by Russia to the Conference on Disarmament to combat chemical and biological terrorism, and to start negotiations in the conference on a draft agreement for this purpose based on the Russian text.
Al-Miqdad pointed out that Syria's experience with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed report after report, or fabrication after fabrication, that those in charge of running this organization fell into the trap of polarization and political dependence, and their submission to the policies and dictates of Western countries that were hostile to Syria.
Al-Miqdad said that Syria calls on the OPCW parties to undertake, during the next review conference, a responsible and accurate review of the organization's course of action and to correct obvious mistakes and violations of the provisions of the agreement in order to preserve the organization and its future.
Minister Al-Miqdad stressed that the Israeli occupation entity constitutes a source of permanent and serious threat to regional and international peace and security, in addition to launching repeated attacks on the Syrian and Palestinian territories, it continues to modernize and expand its arsenal of all types of weapons of mass destruction, benefiting from the support provided by known countries.
Al-Miqdad added that Syria affirms that the occupying entity and its supporters are obstructing the establishment of a zone free of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, which requires the United Nations to compel it to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty and subject all its nuclear facilities to the comprehensive safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Al-Miqdad pointed out that the Western version of the outcome of the talks on the Iranian nuclear agreement ignores the fact that what matters reached is the result of the United States' withdrawal from the agreement and the failure of European countries and the European Union to fulfill their obligations under it.
Al-Miqdad stressed that the only way to overcome the deteriorating situation in the international security environment is the commitment of Member States in word and deed to international law and the Charter of the United Nations and the implementation of their obligations in the field of arms control, nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, away from double standards and narrow political agendas.
