PARIS, 10 July 2021, (TON): At the 97th session of the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Damascus was accused of using chemical weapons in Sarakib in retaliation for the downed Russian plane, these accusations are absurd and do not stand up to criticism, Alexander Shulgin, Russia’s permanent representative to the organization told media.

The 97th session of the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was held in The Hague on July 6-9.

Shulgin said “during the last session of the Executive Council, the GRI (investigation and identification grouped.) Presented another portion of its developments, now on the incident in Syrian Sarakib in 2018. The indictments against Damascus did not come as a surprise to anyone.”

According to him, the attributes themselves in the document admit that in fact there was no tactical benefit from the use of chemical weapons for the Syrian government forces.

The Permanent Representative noted that “this does not bother them at all, the order has been received, and generous donations from Western donors are pouring in, so we need to work them out,”

Russia and the Syrian government have repeatedly accused the OPCW of biased investigations into incidents in the Arab republic and questioned the conclusions drawn by the technical secretariat.