The United Kingdom and the United States condemn the Syrian regime for its use of chemical weapons in Douma

On Saturday, the United Kingdom and the United States condemned the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, after a report blamed it for the 2018 chlorine attack on the city of Douma, which left 43 dead, according to the agency. Anadolu.

The report, published by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said there were “reasonable grounds to believe” that a military helicopter belonging to the Assad regime attacked a residential area of ​​the city with two canisters loaded with chlorine gas.

The city of Duma is the capital of the Rif Dimashq Governorate and is located about 10 kilometers northeast of Damascus.

“The report refutes the Russian claim that it was an opposition attack,” said the joint statement by the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and France.

“Our governments condemn in the strongest terms the repeated use of these horrific weapons by the Syrian regime and remain steadfast in our demands that the Assad regime immediately comply with its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and relevant Security Council resolutions. Syria must fully declare its chemical weapons program,” the statement said. And to destroy it and to allow the deployment of OPCW personnel in its country to verify that it has done so.”

The ministers also accused the Russian military police of aiding the Assad regime, saying, “No amount of Kremlin misinformation can hide its hand in collusion with the Assad regime.”

“In the aftermath of the Syrian chemical attack on 7 April 2018, Russian Military Police assisted the Syrian regime in denying OPCW access to the site of the attack and attempted to sterilize the site. Russian and Syrian forces also published photographs that were later published online in an attempt to support their fabricated accounts of the attack. This incident.”

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