The Kremlin on Tuesday condemned as unfounded allegations of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government, insisting that the country’s stockpile was destroyed under international supervision.

“The provocations are continuing that spawn such insinuations and unfounded accusations against the Syrian leadership,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.

He commented after the UN Human Rights Council on Monday ordered investigators to “examine the latest violence in Syria.”

The Council condemned “the indiscriminate use of heavy weapons and aerial bombardments against civilians, and the alleged use of chemical weapons in Eastern Ghouta”.

“In Syria the chemical weapons were destroyed. That was verified not only by the Russian side but by the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons),” Peskov insisted.

The Russian official added that that for Moscow, such accusations need to be based on “the findings of an international commission, an international working group, only the result of an impartial investigation.”

“In the absence of such an investigation, all accusations are nothing but insinuations,” he said.

Source: AFP