Iran: Successive UN meetings on the chemical weapons file in Syria are evidence of politicization

New York, (ST) – Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Amir Saeed Iravani, has criticized the UN Security Council’s holding of successive meetings on the chemical weapons file in Syria despite its full cooperation in this regard. He considered that this matter reinforces the suspicion of politicization and repeated accusations against Damascus.

In a speech during a meeting of the UN Security Council on the “Syrian chemical file”, Iravani said that any investigation into the use of chemical weapons must be impartial, professional, credible, purposeful and fully consistent with the assurances and approaches of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Iravani stressed that the politicization of the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the exploitation of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for political purposes threaten the credibility of this organization and the convention.

Iravani added that “the Syrian Government’s move to submit a monthly report to the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the details of the destruction of such weapons and their production facilities deserves to be appreciated.”

Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations pointed out that Syria voluntarily acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention in 2013, and in this case, we firmly believe in the necessity of officially recognizing the cooperation between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,

Raghda Sawas