DISINFO: Syria is being accused of something they no longer possess the tools for
SUMMARY
Why does the international community ignore the evidence that Russia presented in 2019 to the Hague court in this regard (that Damascus revealed all its chemical weapons reserves)? Why do they ignore the fact that there are chemical weapons within the possession of Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist organisations?
The entire international community is aware of the fact that there are no chemical weapons in Syria, and the West also wants to demonize Russia and accuse it of supporting the Syrian state that uses chemicals against civilians.
RESPONSE
Recurring disinformation narratives absolving the Syrian regime of responsibility for chemical attacks, while trying to use the Whataboutism method.
An investigation mechanism set up by the OPCW has twice blamed Syrian government forces for chemical attacks. On 12 April 2021, it said it found “reasonable grounds to believe” that a Syrian air force military helicopter dropped a chlorine cylinder on a Syrian town in 2018, sickening 12 people.
On 8 April 2020, the team found reasonable grounds to believe that the Syrian Arab Air Force was responsible for attacks using chlorine and the nerve agent sarin in March 2017 in the town of Latamneh.
The investigative team was established after Russia blocked the extension of a joint investigation mechanism set up by the United Nations and OPCW in 2015. That mechanism accused Syria of chemical weapons attacks, including unleashing sarin in an aerial attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in April 2017 that killed about 100 people.
Regarding the chemical weapons that Syria possess, the OPCW inspectors could only authenticate that the declared chemical weapons had been destroyed in 2014, even though there were suspicions in the West that Syria had hidden as much as 10% of its stockpile.
In the OPCW 85th report mentioned in the claim, it clearly points out that Damascus “has yet to provide sufficient technical information or explanations [with regard to the finding of a Schedule 2.B.04 chemical] that would enable the Secretariat to close this issue”.
And it's worth mentioning that on 10 April 2018, Russia vetoed the creation of a new inquiry to ascertain responsibility for chemical weapons attacks in Syria. Thus pushing the OPCW members in June to grant it the power to assign blame for chemical attacks.
See similar cases in our database claiming that the chemical attacks in Syria have been staged and filmed by the media of the Western countries; or that the White Helmets have falsified chemical attacks evidence; or that OPCW violated chemical weapons convention to serve Western interests, or that the OPCW report on Ltamenah chemical attacks is misinformation; or that the UN’s JIM was disbanded due to unprofessionalism; or that the OPCW’s IIT is an illegal Western tool.