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DISINFO: While the US still holds the biggest chemical arsenal, OPCW produces predefined reports

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OPCW Chemical weapons/attack West Syrian War

DISINFO: While the US still holds the biggest chemical arsenal, OPCW produces predefined reports

SUMMARY

The teams of the organization (the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) have become systems that produce predefined reports to give a deed of innocence or issue convictions according to the whims and agendas of the countries that control the organization.

This is taking place at a time when the largest chemical arsenal in the world in the United States has yet to be destroyed, which poses a threat to all the peoples and countries of the world and is a tool for threatening international peace and security.

RESPONSE

Recurrent disinformation message attempting to discredit the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), concerning the usage of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian conflict.

The portrayal of the OPCW as a pawn in geopolitical designs started around mid-2018, when the organisation was being granted new powers to assign blame for chemical attacks, especially in the Syrian Douma. 18 countries issued a joint statement, which called for an end to the unacceptable defamation of the OPCW. Russia is a member of the OPCW.

An investigation mechanism set up by the OPCW has twice blamed Syrian regime 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, causing12 people to become ill.

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.

On another note, the United States has destroyed about 90% of the chemical weapons stockpile in a process that started in June 2019, and it is scheduled to be eliminated by Dec. 31, 2023, after the construction of the necessary destruction facilities.

Read similar cases in our database claiming that OPCW reports are made from the information provided by terrorists; or that chemical attacks in Syria have been staged and filmed by Western media; or that the OPCW’s IIT is an illegal Western tool; or that the West is using OPCW to throw baseless accusations at Syria; or that OPCW is an American tool; or that OPCW confirms that Syria is free of chemical weapons.

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