The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that Moscow will not cooperate in principle with the OPCW Investigation and Detection Team (IIG), which is working on a chemical incident in the Syrian city of Duma. This has been reported area foreign policy department.
“As for the accusations in the report that we did not provide SRI with any information to confirm the Russian version of the chemical provocation, Russia, like some other states, is acting on the illegitimacy of this structure and, as has been repeatedly stated, does not, in principle, consider cooperating with it,” the message reads.
The Russian Foreign Ministry also believes that the OPCW investigative team has fulfilled its mandate to justify US, British and French aggression against Syria.
January 27 Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons published The third report on the alleged chlorinated chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma, which concludes there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that the Syrian Air Force was responsible for the April 7, 2018 chemical attack on the Syrian town of Douma.
Former First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky didn’t To discuss the OPCW’s carbon copy reports on Syria at the UN Security Council.
Source: Gazeta
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