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News ID: 68036
Publish Date : 13 July 2019 - 21:34

‘Terrorists Planning Provocation Using Chemical Weapons in Syria’s Idlib’


DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – A new chemical weapons provocation is being planned by terrorists in Syria's Idlib province, according to the Russian envoy to the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Alexander Shulgin.
"They repeatedly have said that Syrians have hidden stocks of chemical weapons and they access them when needed. But nobody seems to think about the military significance of chemical weapons use. We have noted that talks about chemical weapons begin whenever Syrian troops are successful. Why should they resort to chemical weapons use if they are practically in control in Douma or in other places already?" –Shulgin told the media.
Mr Shulgin added that such statements are being made to "divert attention...and start an international scandal."
"The Syrians here and in New York say they know that chemical munitions are being delivered [to Syria], they know from which countries, the names of the people responsible for preparing the provocations. For instance, a chemical provocation is being prepared in Idlib as we speak. Well, a fact-finding team will be sent there, but what will it find? They will say that the Syrians and the Russians who 'shield' them are again to blame. They simply refuse to consider alternative scenarios," Shulgin said.
In 2018, the U.S., the UK and France used reports of alleged chemical attacks in Syria's Douma, Eastern Ghouta and Khan Sheikhoun as a pretext to carry out missile strikes on Syria. Russia has repeatedly stressed that the White Helmets group in Syria was responsible for chemical weapons provocations. In April dozens of the group's members admitted in several interviews, that they had carried out false flag chemical attacks to provoke retaliation against the Syrian armed forces.