The West, at the hands of the Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW), is trying to settle scores with Syria, first deputy permanent representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyansky stated on Monday, speaking at a meeting of the Security Council.
"On the whole, the line chosen by the leadership of the OPCW Technical secretariat looks extremely unflattering and is already reflected in a number of other situations in which the director-general and his staff have become involved, behind which there is nothing but politics," he said.
According to the diplomat, the OPCW is turning into a politicized instrument of punishing unwanted regimes in the hands of the collective West.
"The Syrian chemical dossier has nothing to do with issues of chemical weapons non-proliferation for a long time," he stressed. - "What is happening must be seen not in the context of a dialogue between Syria and the Technical Secretariat of the OPCW, which, no matter how they try to convince us to the contrary, is steadily going on, but exclusively as an attempt to settle accounts with an unwanted state using the Chemical weapons convention."
Polansky characterized this trend as extremely dangerous. "It can affect any state that gets in the way of the geopolitical aspirations of the West," the diplomat warned.
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