Syria's Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCB), Bassam Sabah, said that since joining the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,
Syria has done more than the US in destroying its arsenals.
"In a very short time, Syria has done more than the United States, which has adhered to the Convention from the outset,
but is delaying the complete destruction of its huge chemical weapon stockpiles," Sabah said at the 24th session of the Conference of Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention in The Hague.
The diplomat recalled that Syria acceded to the Convention in 2013, and the Convention entered into force in 1997.
"We have fulfilled all our commitments and completed the destruction of our chemical weapons and the facilities where they were produced, achieving them under extremely complicated conditions," said Sabah.
On November 25, OPAQ Director-General Fernando Arias stated that "as of October 31, 2019, a total of 68,600 tonnes, or 97.3% of declared Category 1 chemical weapons, were destroyed under verification. of the organization's Secretariat."
Comment: The above is revealing in how diplomats and politicians alike speak behind closed doors, as well as how many see Israel and its genocide of the Palestinians for what it really is: