“There are already examples of such unscrupulous games, there are plenty of them. What is the gamble worth of trying to endow the technical secretariat of the OPCW with the functions of the prosecutor in gross violation of the chemical weapons convention, the prerogatives of the UN Security Council and contrary to the position of the majority of states parties to this convention, ”said Lavrov.
Previously, countries that are parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention opposed a draft decision proposed by Russia and China to establish a working group to assess the legality of the expansion of the OPCW’s mandate.