How Russia defended Assad from accusations of chemical attack. 6 Theses

The UN Security Council discussed a possible chemical attack in the rebel-held city of the Duma in Eastern Guta in Syria. A number of monitoring groups and local doctors reported on the alleged use of toxic agents on April 7. In their opinion, referring to the symptoms of the victims, the city was discarded with chlorine and one of the nerve gases.

Russia and representatives of the regime Bashar Assad deny the use of chemical weapons in the Duma. Nine states, including the United States, France, Great Britain, demanded an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Duma. Russia also demanded that the UN Security Council be assembled by raising the issue of "a threat to international peace and security".

1. There was no chemical attack
   "After the Duma was released from the militants, Russian specialists on radiological, chemical and biological protection were sent there to collect data, they took soil samples that showed the absence of nerve agents and chlorine-containing substances, and asked local residents and resistance fighters who stopped resistance.

No local resident confirmed the fact of the attack. The local hospital with symptoms of poisoning agents such as sarin and chlorine did not come. There are no other active medical facilities in the Duma. The body of the dead as a result of poisoning was not found.
I call on those who will oppose me and denounce the regime, proceed from the fact that there was no chemical attack. "

1. The OPCW should investigate
   "Let the OPCW immediately, tomorrow, fly to Damascus, where the Syrian authorities and the Russian military will be provided with conditions for traveling to the place of the alleged incident."

2. This is a provocation
   "The Syrian people warned repeatedly that the chemical provocation could happen, and the Russian center for reconciling the warring parties said that the necessary equipment had already been delivered for surveying the" consequences of the chemotherapy ".

3. Chemical weapons could use and opponents Bashar Assad
   "Until now, the fact of detecting a significant amount of chemical weapons in the territory of Syria, liberated from militants, has been without attention in November-December 2017. There were 20 single-ton containers and more than 50 ammunition stuffed with toxic chemicals in the province of Khama."

4. Provocations could prepare Americans
   "There is also information that in the Ottan camp, American instructors have trained several groups of militants to carry out provocations with the use of chemical weapons, in order to create an excuse for a missile and bomb attack."

5. The English try to divert attention from the poisoning of Sergei Skripal
   "Now the British are moving away from a transparent investigation and answers to the questions posed, and incidentally sweep the tracks."

In response, the US Permanent Representative to the UN, Nicky Haley, stated that, whatever the UN Security Council's decision, the US will take independent action to punish the perpetrators of the chemical attack. According to her, "the world must become a witness of how justice is accomplished."