Russian Ambassador in Damascus: The investigation group about the chemist in Syria is illegal and Moscow does not recognize it

Russian Ambassador to Syria Alexander Yevimov renewed his country’s rejection of the Western accusations of the Syrian Arab Army of using chemical weapons in the countryside of the province of Hama, pointing out that his country does not recognize the so-called “investigation and identification team” of the Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons because it “formed outside the framework of the Treaty on the Limitation of The proliferation of chemical weapons. ”

“The investigation group was formed illegally and outside the framework of the Chemical Weapons Convention and therefore we do not recognize it and we have our own position and we are preparing a response to its report,” Yevimov said in a statement quoted by Sputnik today.

Ambassador Yefimov indicated that his country had issued a statement, in which it rejected the accusations made by the commission.

The press office of the Permanent Representation of Russia to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was renewed on the eighth of this month, his country condemning the work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in Syria, confirming that it committed gross violations of the basic principle of its work in its new report, which is not trustworthy.

Syria‘s permanent representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Bassam Sabbagh, confirmed in a statement last Thursday that the report of the so-called “investigation and identification team” issued by the Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on the eighth of this month included false conclusions based on false and fabricated information aimed at falsifying facts and accusation The Syrian government has used toxic chemicals in incidents that occurred on the 24th, 25th and 30th of March of 2017 in the town of Latamna in Hama Governorate.

Source : Sana