NEW YORK, (ST)_ Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya has stressed that Syria has abided by all its obligations towards the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations as regards the Chemical file despite pressures and accusations against it.
His remarks were made during a session held via video by the UN Security council on the situation on Syria on Thursday, according to TASS News agency.
The agency quoted the Russian diplomat as saying that the formulation of a biased draft resolution against Syria in next April by the OPCW’s member states will pose a real threat as it will undermine the authority of the organization and the UNSC that is responsible for the implementation of the resolution No. 2118.
In this context, Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister and Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Dr. Bashar Al-Jaafari, denounced yesterday the insistence of some Western countries to use the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the so-called “chemical file” as a weapon in the war imposed on Syria and as a tool to put pressure and political blackmail to serve the agendas of these countries in Syria and the region.
Basma Qaddour