Recent Accusations Provided in UN-OPCW JIM’s Report against Syria Baseless, Lack Objectivity: Foreign Ministry

DAMASCUS, (ST)- The recently issued accusations against Syria provided in the report of the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) of the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical  Weapons (OPCW) are baseless and the report’s conclusions reflect no accuracy or objectivity, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates.

In a statement on Wednesday on the UN-OPCW’s JIM’s report about the using of toxic chemical materials in Syria, the ministry said “the Syrian Arab Republic has repeatedly denied all allegations promoted by some western circles and their tools on official Syrian parties’ using  of  poisonous chemical materials like chlorine gas in the Syrian Army’s military operations against terrorist groups.”

  According to the ministry, the Syrian government, starting from its commitment to the principle of transparency, has fully cooperated with all the requirements of the investigation conducted by international committees since 2014. The government provided the committees with all facilitations necessary for conducting honest and credible investigations and gave them clear cut evidence about some terrorist groups fabricating and falsifying events in Syria, the ministry said.  

The ministry clarified that the JIM couldn’t provide any tangible evidence about whether chlorine gas was really used, pointing out that the way adopted by the JIM to reach the conclusions were unprofessional and they lacked objectivity that makes the results of its investigations unconvincing and hard to be built on.

Syria has repeatedly warned of the repercussions of politicizing this issue on the credibility of the work of concerned international parties and which were resulted from the pressure practiced by the western countries supporting terrorism, according to the ministry.

Over the past two years, Syria submitted a lot of important information about the terrorist group’s possessing and using of toxic chemical agents and weapons and about the involvement of the Turkish and Saudi regimes and some western countries in delivering these poisonous materials to the terrorists, said the ministry.  

The ministry concluded by saying that the government of the Syrian Arab Republic, which completely refuses the accusations included in the report, affirms that it will continue to implement all its commitments resulted from joining the Chemical Weapon Convention (CWC).  

Hamda Mustafa