Репост из: Embassy of Russia in the Netherlands
🇷🇺Interview of Mr.Vladimir Tarabrin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OPCW, to Russia Today
On Syria
🔹The Russian Federation expresses its full support to the Syrian people, Syria's territorial integrity, its unity, independence and sovereignty.
☝️The Russian Federation also fully supports close monitoring of the situation in Syria by the OPCW. However, we note that it is of utmost importance that such monitoring be comprehensive and impartial, based on the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and concrete evidence.
❗️We have repeatedly reminded that in eleven years since Syria has joined the Convention neither the Technical Secretariat no any State Party has so far provided any evidence confirming that Syria might possess chemical weapons. No State Party has shared such data and evidence under the UN Security Council resolution 2118. The Technical Secretariat was only able to state that it could not confirm the comprehensiveness and completeness of Syrian initial declaration.
On the situation in Ukraine
🔹We regret that not only the Kiev regime does not hesitate to use toxic chemicals included in the Scheduled Lists of the CWC, but it has a proper base for the production of poisoning chemicals. Ukrainian militants use listed chemicals such as BZ, hydrocyanic acid, US-made gas grenades and other toxic chemicals.
❗️We have transmitted this data to the OPCW. These materials are backed up with the results of sample analysis collected in accordance with the high standards of the OPCW.
☝️Identification of the presence of toxic substances in the samples was carried out by the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory of the 27th Scientific Centre of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.
🔈Click here to watch the whole interview
On Syria
🔹The Russian Federation expresses its full support to the Syrian people, Syria's territorial integrity, its unity, independence and sovereignty.
☝️The Russian Federation also fully supports close monitoring of the situation in Syria by the OPCW. However, we note that it is of utmost importance that such monitoring be comprehensive and impartial, based on the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and concrete evidence.
❗️We have repeatedly reminded that in eleven years since Syria has joined the Convention neither the Technical Secretariat no any State Party has so far provided any evidence confirming that Syria might possess chemical weapons. No State Party has shared such data and evidence under the UN Security Council resolution 2118. The Technical Secretariat was only able to state that it could not confirm the comprehensiveness and completeness of Syrian initial declaration.
On the situation in Ukraine
🔹We regret that not only the Kiev regime does not hesitate to use toxic chemicals included in the Scheduled Lists of the CWC, but it has a proper base for the production of poisoning chemicals. Ukrainian militants use listed chemicals such as BZ, hydrocyanic acid, US-made gas grenades and other toxic chemicals.
❗️We have transmitted this data to the OPCW. These materials are backed up with the results of sample analysis collected in accordance with the high standards of the OPCW.
☝️Identification of the presence of toxic substances in the samples was carried out by the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory of the 27th Scientific Centre of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.
🔈Click here to watch the whole interview