At UN Security Council, Aaron Maté Debunks OPCW’s Syria Lies and Confronts US, UK on Cover-Up

From The Grayzone:

Speaking to the United Nations Security Council, Aaron Maté of The Grayzone takes apart the OPCW’s excuses for refusing to address the organization’s Syria cover-up scandal.

OPCW inspectors found no evidence to support allegations of a Syrian government chemical weapons attack in the city of Douma in April 2018. But their findings were suppressed, and the team was sidelined.

The OPCW leadership now claims that “most of the analytical work took place” in the “last six months” of the Douma investigation, when the original team was out of the picture. Comparing the OPCW’s own published reports, Maté shows why that is demonstrably false.

The bulk of the work was in fact carried out by the original team in the first weeks of the probe, and the “analytical work” conducted after their censorship is minor in scale and riddled with deceptions and unsupported conclusions.

Maté also addresses a new claim by OPCW Director General Fernando Arias that “I don’t know why” the OPCW’s final Douma report “was contested.” This is another demonstrably false claim, as Arias’ own prior statements show.

Maté also asks the US and UK ambassadors if they will support a new proposal from distinguished signatories — including five former OPCW officials — to let the OPCW’s own Scientific Advisory Board assess the claims of the dissenting inspectors. The US and UK Ambassadors left the meeting — it is unclear when — and so did not respond.

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9 thoughts on “At UN Security Council, Aaron Maté Debunks OPCW’s Syria Lies and Confronts US, UK on Cover-Up”

  1. Thank you, Aaron, and for Antiwar,com’s coverage of this despicable international propaganda.
    Keep your head down, bro.

  2. “The US and UK Ambassadors left the meeting — it is unclear when — and so did not respond.”
    They had to go murder some kittens to drink their blood.

  3. The OPCW, along with the UK is a vassal of the American Empire, taking their marching orders from Washington. Thus, it is not surprising that the OPCW blatantly lies to facilitate US plans for regime change in Syria. We are seeing the rot/putrefaction of late-stage American capitalism, which has progressed to the point where the very survival of the American Empire requires constant debt monetization (aka money printing) to prop up financial markets, over-priced real estate, the Pentagon and support ongoing wars. You are trying to analyze the OPCW reports in a rational manner. The American Empire has no interest in an honest investigation; they want regime change in Syria.

  4. The OPCW should be disbanded as it is now totally discredited , it can then be reformed keeping the USA / Britian as far away as possible their influnece would be totally CORRUPTING as it alway`s is.

  5. these people don’t care – they have already pocketed the profits and ruined the country. It would be small justice for Israel + US + UK to pay reparations

    millions of lives destroyed, untold suffering

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