British chair to both OPCW probes on Syria ‘chemical attack’ is against international principle – Lavrov
‘It is “a strange coincidence” that both OPCW fact-checking missions investigating the alleged chemical attack in Syria’s Idlib are headed by UK citizens, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding that it “runs contrary to the principles of an international organization.”
“I would like to remind you that we have pointed out a very strange coincidence: that the two groups of the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on the potential use of chemical weapons in Syria are chaired by UK citizens,” Lavrov said answering to an RT question at a joint news conference with his Senegalese counterpart on Tuesday.
This, according to the minister, “runs contrary to the principles of an international organization, the structures of which must be maximally balanced.”’
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