Al-Jaafari: Syria has abided by all its commitments as a result of its joining the agreement of banning chemical weapons

New York (ST): Syria’s permanent representative at the UN Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari reiterated the falseness of the allegations mongered by some Western governments regarding the chemical file in Syria, stressing that Syria has abided by all its commitments resulting from its joining the agreement that banned chemical weapons and destroyed all its chemical weapons since 2014 and this requires the closure of this file completely.

During the UN Security Council meeting on the Status in the Middle East, held through video conference, al-Jaafari expressed the Syrian delegation’s severe objection to the participation of the representative of the Turkish regime, which is a sponsor of terrorism, in this meeting. He reminded members of the Council that because of Erdogan’s support for the terrorist organizations, they managed to commit many crimes, including those perpetrated by using chemical weapons. This issue, al-Jaafari added, was confirmed by the

Turkish media referring to what was published by a Turkish newspaper in 2012 about the terrorists’ manufacture of poisonous gases in a laboratory in Gazi Entab city and the reports related to the smuggling of Sarin gas from Libya to the terrorist organizations operating in Syria.

The Syrian diplomat clarified that since the adoption of the UNSC resolution No.2118 in September 2013, some UNSC members have been working to hold monthly sessions, that have amounted to 84 in number, without any clear objective except trying to blackmail Syria and its allies regarding the chemical file. He noted that the US, British and French governments do not want to recognize the established fact that in June 2014, head of the joint committee for eliminating chemical weapons in Syria submitted her final report to the UNSC in which she affirmed that Syria committed to all its pledges and destroyed all its chemical weapons.

The same issue was confirmed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons.

Al-Jaafari also pointed out that the UNSC closed the so-called file of Joint Investigation Mechanism in November 2017 because of the irresponsible practices of the team which was subjected to pressure imposed by the US, Britain and France to issue biased reports against Syria and accuse it of using chemical weapons against civilians.

Al-Jaafari affirmed that Syria has completely abided by its commitments resulting from when it joined the Treaty of Banning Chemical Weapons, and it has been keen on cooperation with the OPCW officials in a positive, professional and transparent way despite the big challenges resulting from the existence of the Turkish and US occupations and their provocative and aggressive acts in addition to the unfair unilateral coercive measures being imposed on Syrian people.

Al-Jaafari concluded that “ In Syria, we are realistic, we believe in the justice of our cause and the fact that this world is not a jungle in which the law of force is imposed instead of the force of law. For this reason, we and our friends will not allow the existence of new iron boxes at the UN Security Council that have been closed for sixty years to be opened to prevent the world from discovering the scandals committed by the US and Britain when they fabricated the file of the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to invade Iraq and destroy it.

Then they marched, along with some hypocrites, to bid farewell to the international law and UN charter at the martyrs’ cemetery in Baghdad beside the dead bodies of millions of innocent Iraqis.

K.Q.