{"id":116414,"date":"2017-10-23T20:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=116414"},"modified":"2017-10-24T17:37:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T14:37:57","slug":"moscow-russias-stance-towards-extending-opcw-mandate-in-syria-depends-on-quality-of-investigation-on-khan-sheikhoun-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=116414","title":{"rendered":"Moscow: Russia&#8217;s stance towards extending OPCW mandate in Syria depends on quality of investigation on Khan Sheikhoun incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA \u2013 Russia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry stressed that Moscow attitude towards extending the mandate of the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) investigating the use of chemical weapons in Syria depends on the quality of investigative report on Khan Sheikhoun incident on April, 4<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Monday, the Ministry added that the US insists that the UN Security Council should immediately adopt a resolution in this regard, and moreover it seriously distorts the Russian stance claiming that Moscow will block the JIM&#8217;s mandate extension if the results oppose Syria&#8217;s interest.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Foreign Ministry refuted those statements as groundless, adding that Washington&#8217;s intention to extend the JIM&#8217;s mandate seems strange.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier,\u00a0Director of Russian International Ministry\u2019s Non-Proliferation and Arms Management Division,\u00a0Mikhail Ulyanov, described the joint OPCW-UN investigation conducted about the use of chemical weapons in Syria as &#8220;unprofessional and raises questions&#8221; as the experts refused to gather ground samples from al-Shayrat airbase to be analyzed.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Moscow will take its decision on extending JIM\u2019s mandate after the latter publishes its report on October 26<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The mandate of the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) ends on December 16<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>R.Raslan\/Mazen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA \u2013 Russia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry stressed that Moscow attitude towards extending the mandate of the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) investigating the use of chemical weapons in Syria depends on the quality of investigative report on Khan Sheikhoun incident on April, 4th. In a statement issued on Monday, the Ministry added that the US &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":116415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}