Washington, Paris and other States of the Collective West continue to provide funding, training and weapons to terrorists present in Syria to attack civilian and military targets, the delegate condemned, while saying that this Western approach has encouraged radicals to commit increasingly heinous crimes including the latest one that targeted a cadet graduation ceremony in the central city of Homs where 89 civilians and military personnel were killed and 277 were injured.

Attiya criticized that OPCW´s Technical Secretariat, as an international organization, ignored all international reports issued by the United Nations confirming that terrorist groups were capable of possessing advanced weapons and airborne systems.

We warned about the possibility of these terrorists loading advanced drones with chemical weapons and thus threatening innocent people in other parts of the world, Attiya added while reaffirming Syria’s categorical rejection of the use of chemical weapons by any party and at any time or place.

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