TEHRAN, July 2, YJC - Iran's defense minister said despite Western countries’ propaganda, Syrian forces have never used chemical weapons against terrorists, who are using weapons of mass destruction in their war against Damascus.
TEHRAN, July 2, YJC - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic, as per its core principles, opposes the use of chemical weapons in any form and by any group.
Iran’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Alireza Jahangiri categorically blasted use of chemical weapons by terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria.
Tehran, YJC. -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Chemical Warfare, 29 April 2014, reiterated that any use of chemical weapons under any circumstances would be a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.
Consulttions with the participation of experts from the Russian Federation, the United States, and Syria on the question of eliminating 12 facilities involved in the chemical production programme of the Syrian Arab Republic (S.A.R.) will be held at the beginning of February in the Hague where the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are located, a source at the UN told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
The U.K. will help the international mission to destroy Syria's chemical weapons program, officials said Friday, joining a complex operation with prominent roles for the U.S., Denmark and Norway.
The process of eliminating Syria's chemical weapons runs at full speed in compliance with the schedule, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a Federation Council meeting
on Wednesday.