May 25,
2017, by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation:
On May
23, the UNSC held its successive discussion on the state of affairs
around the so-called Syrian “chemical dossier”. The Western
“troika” of permanent members of the UN Security Council sought
to give an anti-Assad and anti-Russian pronounced spin to this event.
It was reconfirmed that these “exposers” of Damascus were not
interested in establishing the truth in a crucial issue of who
actually stood behind the alleged use of sarin on April 4, 2017, in
the Syrian province of Idlib. Representatives of the United States,
Great Britain and France have desperately resisted any attempt to
figure out to what extent their verdict delivered “in absentia”
about the allegedly undeniable responsibility of the Bashar Al-Assad
Government for this chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun was justified.
An
unsightly scene has been developed. It seems that almost two months
after the chemical incident nobody has been in a hurry to visit Khan
Sheikhoun in order to examine all the circumstances of such a
high-impact case. Moreover, the Westerners have ruled out even the
very option of visiting the Shayirat airbase where, according to
their own allegations, the sarin used in Khan Sheikhoun was stored.
Unfortunately,
no activity has been undertaken in this regard by the OPCW
Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) that proceeds with postponing its visit to
Khan Sheikhoun blaming unfavorable security conditions. As for the
leadership of the OPCW – UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), it
is yet to develop a plan of investigatory actions indicating sites to
visit, individuals to question and documents to claim.
Russia’s
position on this ongoing situation is well known and crystal clear:
the investigation of this incident should be carried out as
scrupulously as possible, in strict compliance with the JIM and FFM
mandates approved by the UNSC and OPCW and include all investigatory
actions, methods and proceedings envisaged in relevant UNSC
resolutions and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Both Khan
Sheikhoun and Shayirat airbase must be visited, the first as the site
of this barbaric deed and the second as facility claimed to be
allegedly in a direct relation with it. The established vicious
practice within the JIM and FFM of conducting investigations in a
remote mode based on the evidence provided by questionable witnesses
or sometimes even “false victims” is absolutely unacceptable. The
resources of NGOs that compromised themselves long ago and have
established links with militants and terrorist entities are widely
used. This is not just an imitation of work – we are dealing with a
deliberate, intentional falsification in pursuance of clearly
established political objectives.
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