Subscribe to our channel! rupt.ly/subscribe US Ambassador to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ken Ward accused Russia of playing "a central role" in covering up the use of chemical weapons in Syria, during a meeting in the Hague on Thursday.
"The Syrian cover-up is never going to work because the international community has the courage of its convictions, does not wish to live in a world of chemical weapons, and wants to protect the people of Syria from the threat of chemical weapons use. Unfortunately, the Russian Federation has played a central role in this cover-up," he said.
The ambassador also paraphrased the TV-series 'Chernobyl', saying, "Every falsehood creates a debt to the truth, every use of chemical weapons in Syria creates a debt to justice. The international community is going to pay these debts. The truth is always going to come out, Syria will not be able to use these chemical weapons in dark corners and believe it can do so and escape impunity."
Russian Ambassador responded by pointing out the United States was behind schedule in the elimination of its chemical weapons and raised doubts about the OPCW report into the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Syrian city of Douma.
"We're being called upon to trust the conclusion of the fact-finding mission's experts, but conclusions were drawn on the basis of findings gathered by independent external experts," he said. "Could this mean that fact-finding mission expert conclusions did not meet the expectations which some countries had pinned on all of this?"
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