Saudi Arabia confirmed yesterday that it attaches great importance to implementing its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, believing in the objectives of the agreement, based on its consistent and targeted policy to enhance cooperation to ban weapons of mass destruction and prevent their proliferation, and the need to seek the universality of the Convention for its role in promoting international peace and security, and urged countries That did not join the Chemical Weapons Convention quickly to join, in order to achieve the goals of the High Organization.
This came in the speech of the Kingdom’s delegation participating in the 93rd session of the Executive Council to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which was delivered by the Ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kingdom’s delegate to the organization, Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Abu Hamed, and published by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
The ambassador pointed out that despite the progress that has been made in destroying Syrian chemical weapons, the discrepancy and inconsistency in Syria's initial declaration and its subsequent statements, “raise many questions”, calling “the Syrian authorities to cooperate with the ad evaluation team, and with the technical secretariat of the organization, To implement all decisions related to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. ”
He explained that the Kingdom renews its support for the work of the fact-finding mission in Syria, and looking forward to the results of its investigations into some of the incidents that the mission is working on, as well as the Kingdom's support for the work of the investigation team, and the identification of those who used chemical weapons in Syria, and for the investigations it is carrying out in a number Of incidents, and we look forward to his forthcoming first report in the coming weeks.
The head of the delegation of the Kingdom said: The delegation reviewed the proposals submitted by some member states regarding the internal system of the advisory body concerned with administrative and financial issues of the organization, and we hope that the member states will reach a consensus that allows the development and amendment of the organization's internal system.