Granting a mandate to attribute responsibility for chemical weapons attacks in Syria to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) allows western states to attack any country undesirable for them on the basis of fabricated evidence, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, said
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 15th February, 2019) Granting a mandate to attribute responsibility for chemical weapons attacks in Syria to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) allows western states to attack any country undesirable for them on the basis of fabricated evidence, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, said.
Last April, the White Helmets group published a video that showed local residents, both adults and children, being treated at a hospital after an alleged chemical attack in Syria's Duma. On Wednesday, Riam Dalati, the Syria producer at the BBC, said he had concluded after six months of investigations that the footage was staged. Konashenkov recalled that the creation of the false evidence of chemical weapons attacks brought negative consequences for the whole system of international relations.
"This particularly concerns the vote, pushed through in June 2018 by the manipulations of Washington, London and other Western capitals, on granting the so-called attribution, meaning 'prosecution,' functions to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Due to this decision, on the basis of deceitful videos of another nursed 'White Helmets' about chemical attacks threat, western capitals will be able to carry out missile strikes against any state undesirable for them without any authorization by the UN Security Council � meaning, depending on their mood," Konashenkov pointed out.
"Taking into account the scale of consequences and the number of acting high-ranking western politicians and security services in the United States, (especially) the United Kingdom and other western countries, involved in these falsifications, all that is left to do is wish BCC producer Riam Dalati that he avoids persecution and, even more so, provocations from those whose interests he ran counter to," the Defense Ministry's spokesman argued.
