“In the case of the Syrian “himdossier”, there is no development of the situation “on the ground”, and not at all because of the actions of Damascus, as our Western colleagues will try to prove today, but because of the stubborn unwillingness of the OPCW Technical Secretariat to straighten out its biased anti-Syrian line,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
Polyansky stressed that the “connivance of the OPCW leadership” in response to attempts by Western countries to make the Organization an instrument of their own policy leads to the degradation of this once authoritative Organization and causes “irreparable damage” to its authority.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow was seriously concerned about the attempts of the United States and its allies to reformat the OPCW "for themselves."
Russian Ambassador to the OPCW Alexander Shulgin said that the United States is dragging out the process of eliminating its chemical weapons arsenal.