Russia will file a complaint to the UN on the work of OPCW in Syria
On August 4th, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that it will file a complaint – during the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly -on the mechanism of the chemical weapons organization and its politicization in Syria.
“We strongly oppose the attempts of some Western countries to politicize the work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which constitutes a clear violation of the standards stipulated in the Chemical Weapons Convention,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement reported by TASS.
“We consider their actions aim at giving the technical secretariat of the organization the function of identifying those responsible for the use of chemical weapons, including the creation of an illegal investigation and identification team is illegal practices and we reiterate our strong opposition to its biased conclusions,” the Foreign Ministry said.
The Foreign Ministry added that Russia has a set of complaints regarding the work of other inspection missions of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic, which violate the investigation methods stipulated in the Chemical Weapons Convention.
The Russian Foreign Ministry urged the Organization for the Prohibition of Weapons to take measures as soon as possible to correct this regrettable situation.
The Foreign Ministry expressed Russia’s support for conducting impartial and professional investigations into chemical provocations by armed terrorist organizations in Syria and all manifestations of chemical terrorism in the Middle East, with strict adherence to standards of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
O. al-Mohammad