Russia accuses Washington of misleading the work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in Syria

The Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, Alexander Shulgin, said: “The US is always trying to turn the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons into a tool to serve its political agendas to mislead the work of the (OPCW) which its reports condemn the Assad regime.”

Shulgin made it clear, in a press conference at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry in Damascus, that “The US is always trying to do such an infamous bad deed and the US is well known for using its allies to achieve their interests, which is an explicit violation of the international law.”

Shulgin claimed that the United States and its allies have breached the UN missions with the aim of manipulating the investigations, attacking the Assad regime, falsifying the facts, and blaming it.

The public symposium on cooperation between the Syrian and Russian missions to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was launched on Monday in Damascus. The Foreign Minister of the Assad regime, Faisal al-Mekdad, discussed during the symposium with the representative of Russia, Ambassador Alexander Shulgin, the cooperation in confronting pressure and blackmail from the West through the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

The Assad regime of Foreign Ministry previously condemned the statements of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the spokesman for the US National Security Council regarding accusations charged against Damascus of using chemical weapons in 2013, considering them to be fabricated and faked incidents.

The Assad regime of Foreign Ministry added that Syria denounced the positions of France and the United States, which fall within the framework of covering up their responsibility with other countries in supporting terrorist groups and their involvement in supplying those groups with chemical materials and weapons that they used in all the incidents that occurred in Syria.

The French Foreign Ministry issued a statement in which it accused the Assad regime of using chemical weapons in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus and announced France’s commitment to ensuring that the perpetrators of these crimes do not go unpunished.