“Since the creation of the OPCW’s commission of inquiry in violation of Article 15 of the Chemical Weapons Convention, we have no doubt that its main goal is to whitewash illegal acts of aggression against Syria in April 2017 and 2018. The recent report of the commission of inquiry is clear evidence of such an intention, ”the diplomat said on the website of the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN.
As noted by Nebenzya, "a group of so-called" experts "simply reduced all activity to a repetition of baseless accusations made by some states."
He also emphasized that the Syrian chemical weapons program was closed and all stockpiles destroyed.
On April 8, the OPCW released a report on the investigation of chemical attacks in Syria in 2017. According to investigators, airstrikes in the province of Hama using chlorin and sarin were carried out by the Syrian Air Force.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the document is custom-made and may have been drafted under pressure from Western countries.