Syria rejects OPCW report it used chemical weapons in 2018

By AFP 14 April 2021, 8:41 pm

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Syria angrily rejects a global watchdog’s report that found it used chemical weapons on a rebel-held town in 2018, dismissing the charge as “fabricated.”

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Monday that an investigation found the Syrian air force used the chemical weapon chlorine on Saraqib on February 4, 2018.

In a statement carried by state news agency SANA, Syria’s foreign ministry condemns the report “in the strongest terms.” It says Damascus “categorically denies its use of poison gas in the town of Saraqib or any other Syrian town or village.”

The report by “the so-called ‘identification and investigation team’ on the alleged incident in Saraqib… contains unfounded and fabricated conclusions,” it says.