The Russian ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Antonov, has said that the statements of the white house spokesman, Jen Psaki, on chemical weapons “are fundamentally false” and seek to “demonize Russia”.
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki answers questions during the daily White House briefing on February 1, 2022. Photo: AFP
Specific, Antonov refers to the words that Psaki He pronounced this Tuesday at a press conference, in which he said that Russia is and has “a country and a leader that has used chemical weapons, that has invaded several countries in recent years, that has taken aggressive measures on the world stage many times”.
Let me remind you that the United States remains the only country that has not yet fulfilled its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and has not eliminated its national stockpiles. The Russian Federation has completely destroyed its stocks of this type of weapon,” he said in a statement on the Embassy’s official Facebook profile.
In that sense, it has summoned Washington to fulfill its obligations “to rid the world of chemical warfare agents.” Likewise, it has considered that the accusations of invasion of other states “are also unfounded.”
Russia adheres to the principle of ‘non-interference’ in the affairs of foreign countries and strictly follows international law, unlike the United States, whose modern history is more like a chronology of US military operations in different parts of the world,” has said.
Antonov has referred to “the bloody experiments” of “democratization” in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria or Afghanistan, which have only brought “chaos, instability and loss of life”: “They are just some of the countries that have experienced the aggressiveness of US foreign policy”.
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