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| Russia refuses to discuss in the UN Security Council OPCW reports on Syria 'carbon copy' |
| 2023-01-06 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [RIA Novosti] Russia's first deputy permanent representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, refused to discuss in the Security Council the OPCW's carbon copy reports on the Syrian chemical dossier. Before Polyansky's speech at the meeting, an employee of the office of the UN High Representative for Disarmament, referring to the OPCW reports, once again stated that the organization had not received the requested information from Syria. “It is a pity that we are starting the new working year with another meeting on the Syrian chemical dossier, which has already become boring due to the complete lack of added value. We, like other members of the Council, have repeatedly said that this topic should be discussed in the Security Council every month for show in there is no point in catering to the internal political objectives of a number of Western states," the Russian diplomat stressed. According to him, the head of the OPCW, Fernando Arias, constantly invents far-fetched pretexts for not being present at the Council for a briefing, getting off every month with "carbon copy written reports." All this undermines the authority of the Security Council, Polyansky added. “We urge to show respect for the time of the members of the Security Council and finally optimize the schedule of such meetings. Until this is done, we see no point in entering into a discussion on the merits of the issue,” the deputy representative summed up. The diplomat has previously noted that it is not Damascus that is to blame for the lack of development of the situation on the ground, but the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, which stubbornly refuses to "straighten the biased anti-Syrian line." Polyansky also noted that in each new report, the same type of clichés and politicized accusations against the Syrian authorities continue to be replicated. Moscow has repeatedly called on the head of the OPCW, Fernando Arias, to make a report to the Security Council in order to ask him questions. In addition, Russia expressed bewilderment due to the fact that the general director of the organization himself had never been to Syria, while heading the Technical Secretariat. Russia and the Syrian authorities have repeatedly accused the OPCW of biased investigations of incidents on the territory of the republic and questioned the conclusions made by the Technical Secretariat. Damascus stated that they had never used chemical weapons against civilians and terrorists, and the entire chemical arsenal of the country was removed from its territory under the control of the OPCW. |
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