Syria rejects the OPCW’s misleading report on the alleged Douma chemical incident

Syria completely rejects the report issued on Friday by the so-called Investigation and Identification Team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the alleged incident of using Chlorine in the Syrian city of Douma in April, 2018, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has stated.

In a statement on Saturday, the ministry said that Syria rejects all the claims provided in the report’s conclusions, as they lack scientific and objective evidence.

“No reasonable person or expert in the world can reach the misleading conclusions reached by those who prepared this report and who insist to ignore all the objective information which were provided by some countries, parties, experts, academics, documented media reports and former OPCW inspectors with high knowledge and ecpertise and which confirmed beyond any doubt that the Douma incident was completely fabricated.

The ministry added that the authors of the report used a misleading expression, claiming that “there are reasonable justifications for reaching these conclusions”, which means that the team was not completely convinced of the conclusions of the report.

The ministry pointed out that Syria was not astonished by this report which came to furtger confirm the rightness of the Syrian government’s stances on the OPCW’s reports which lack credibility.

Syria and many other countries rejected recognizing the so-called “Investigation and Identification Team” which is an illegal body as the majority of the countries member in the OPCW didn’t vote in favor of establishing it, the ministry clarified.

The ministry reaffirmed Syria’s condemnation of the using of chemical weapons in any place, at any time and under any circumstances and renewed Syria’s call on all the countries parties to the United Nations and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) to assume their responsibility towards preserving the independence, credibility and future of the OPCW and not to allow the United States and a number of western countries to dominate it, interfere in its work, politicize its missions and use it as a tool to achieve its political goals and schemes.

Hamda Mustafa