Polyansky : The OPCW’s decision against Syria is a dangerous precedent

New York (ST): Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyansky, has affirmed 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.

Polyansky said during a session of the Security Council yesterday that the decision issued at the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Treaty to suspend some of the rights and privileges of the Syrian Arab Republic constitutes an unprecedented practice , explaining that for the first time it is done in an Organization to suspend the rights of a sovereign state known to be fully bound by the Treaty.

“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.

K.Q.