Washington accuses Moscow of obstructing efforts to hold the Assad regime responsible for using chemical weapons

The US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, accused Moscow of “obstructing all efforts” to hold the Assad regime responsible for using chemical weapons in Syria.

“We are all aware that Bashar al-Assad regime has repeatedly used chemical weapons,” Greenfield said.

Why did the Syrian regime not hold the government responsible for this?
While the allies of the Syrian regime, especially Russia, sought to obstruct all efforts to hold the regime responsible.

And unfortunately, the answer is simple: the Assad regime tried to avoid accountability by obstructing independent investigations and undermining the role and work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, ”noting in its first participation in the Security Council sessions since Joe Biden assumed the presidency of the United States, that“ the regime’s allies, especially Russia, sought to obstruct
All efforts aimed at accountability.

For his part, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, stressed last year the need to hold accountable those involved in the use of chemical weapons in Syria, after the report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) concluded that the Assad regime’s planes carried out prohibited chemical attacks on the city of Al-Lataminah in the northern Hama countryside, in March
/ March 2017