THE HAGUE, 4 Jul: The global chemical weapons watchdog said Tuesday it found no evidence to support a claim by Syria that its forces were attacked using toxic gas in 2017.
\nThe Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said that its fact-finding mission concluded that \u201cthere are no reasonable grounds to determine that chemicals were used as a weapon\u201d in two incidents in July and August 2017 in Massasneh, a village in the central province of Hama.
\nSyria asked the OPCW to investigate after reporting a \u201cmortar attack with poiso-nous gas\u201d on its army in the town in fighting with rebels.
\nThe watchdog sent a team to Syria three times to investigate and interview witnesses but they found no evidence of a gas attack, according to the Fact-Finding Mission report.
\nThe fact-finding mission has issued 20 reports covering 73 instances of alleged chemical weapons use in Syria. It has found that chemical weapons were used or likely used in 20 incidents. The mission is not mandated to apportion blame for such attacks.
\nAnother investigative team at the OPCW that seeks to identify forces respon-sible for using chemical weapons has found evidence indicating repeated use of chemical weapons by Syria in the country\u2019s grinding civil war. States at the Hague-based OPCW suspended Damascus\u2019 voting rights at the organization in 2021 over the attacks.
\nSyria, which joined the organization in 2013 after being threatened with airstrikes in response to a chemical attack on the outskirts of the country\u2019s capital, has denied using chemical weapons. (AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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