Syria’s new ambassador to OPCW hands his credential to the organization’s Director-General

THE HAGUE (ST)_Syria’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Milad Attiya handed his credentials to the Director-General of the OPCW Fernando Arias.

 

Following the ceremony of presenting the credentials, Ambassador Attiya discussed with Arias prospects of cooperation with the OPCW, indicating that Syria has fulfilled all its obligations related to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) despite the critical situation Syria has passed through during the past years, mainly the terrorist and economical war being waged by some countries against it, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). 

 

The ambassador called on the technical secretariat of the organization to shoulder its responsibility and to be honest in terms of implementing  the provisions of the Convention far from politicization and double- standards policy.

 

For his part, Arias expressed the readiness of the OPCW’s technical secretariat to offer all forms of support and cooperation to make the task of Syria’s ambassador a success as well as achieving fruitful and constructive cooperation to find solutions to the suspended questions.

 

Basma Qaddour