On Monday, at the UN Security Council, the US, the UK, France, and allies blocked testimony from a former director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Jose Bustani is a Brazilian diplomat and was the first director-general of the OPCW, which was formed in 1997.
Bustani was pushed out of the organization in 2002 by the Bush administration for his efforts to negotiate with Saddam Hussein. The Brazilian was prepared to deliver testimony to the UN Security Council on Monday over the OPCW’s investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria, in April 2018.
The US, UK, and France responded to the alleged Douma attack with airstrikes on Syrian government targets. After the strike, OPCW inspectors arrived in Douma to investigate.
Since the OPCW released its final report on the alleged Douma attack in March 2019, a trove of leaked documents have surfaced. The leaks, along with whistleblower testimony, suggest the OPCW suppressed evidence and ignored the findings of senior inspectors to fit the narrative that the Syrian government carried out a chemical attack in Douma.
In October 2019, Bustani attended a panel hosted by the Courage Foundation that heard testimony from an OPCW whistleblower who presented evidence that the Douma investigation was corrupted. After hearing the evidence, the panel released a statement urging the OPCW to revisit its investigation into the Douma incident.
The Grayzone published Bustani’s prepared statement that he was blocked from delivering at the UN Security Council. In his statement, Bustani urges Fernando Arias, the current OPCW director-general, to hear out the inspectors who were on the ground in Douma and had their findings suppressed:
“I would like to make a personal plea to you, Mr Fernando Arias, as Director General of the OPCW. The inspectors are among the Organization’s most valuable assets. As scientists and engineers, their specialist knowledge and inputs are essential for good decision making. Most importantly, their views are untainted by politics or national interests. They only rely on the science. The inspectors in the Douma investigation have a simple request – that they be given the opportunity to meet with you to express their concerns to you in person, in a manner that is both transparent and accountable.”
1. John Bolton was the person who got Bustani removed.
2. Now, following all the other “mistakes” of the last few years eg the bombings of Syria in response to lies about chemical weapons (victims not allowed to testify) and the “novichok” scam in the UK, magically we have Navalny, “kremlin opponent” surviving more of the deadly novichok but urinating it to be tested by the OPCW!!!
Western nations have people to murder and countries to destroy for Israeli interests, and they can’t let the truth get in the way of their plans.
About what one expect from pompass and the european sychophants;
I have had some hope that at some point the europeans would find a spine and some honor but maybe not.
Skripal and Navalny narratives can’t be trusted either.
Not only the Douma incidents and others in Syria, but the Skripal allegations were accepted and not investigated by the OPCW, and the partisan behavior there now shows they are not to be relied on. Mr nothnig Navalny is believed while Russia is assumed to be completely insane, with novichok revived and passing through Navalny’s body with no damage but able to be tested (!) and used to target Russia as the criminal!!