Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad affirmed that the accusations, claims and lies about the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government aim at defaming the Syrian Arab Republic in front of the international public opinion and finding justifications that serve the Zionist entity and its interests in the region, in addition to prolonging the crisis especially after the achievements made by the Syrian Arab Army and its allies in the war on terrorism.

The affirmation made by of Mikdad, who is the head of the national committee for implementing Syria’s obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, came during a press conference he held in Damascus on Monday.

“I affirm in the name of the Syrian Arab Republic that Syria disposed of its chemical program completely. There are no longer any chemical weapons in Syria, or any toxic chemical materials or gases that could be used in military operations,” said Mikdad.

He added that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has acknowledged that Syria eliminated all that is related to its chemical file, reminding that Syria has welcomed and received the investigation teams in all the places they asked to visit.

He noted that the Syrian government has officially requested that chemical materials be disposed of outside Syria so that there can be no doubts about them being destroyed or not, and ships came from Denmark, the US, Britain, Finland and Sweden to carry out this process, pointing out that the Americans are asking for the documents related to the history of the file and experts and others, which no longer exist.

Mikdad recalled that exactly one day after terrorists used toxic gases in Aleppo’s Khan al-Assal, the Syrian government sent a letter to the former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asking for a probe into the incident, but the US mission under Ake Sellstrom at that time arrived in Damascus only four months later, and during a meeting at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry, Professor Sellstrom forgot totally about the Khan al-Assal issue and “surprisingly informed us…of information he received that there was a chemical weapon attack in Eastern Ghouta on 21/8/2013, and that he received instructions to go there instead of heading to Khan al-Assal.”

He went on saying that the Syrian government allowed the mission to go to the site of the incident in Eastern Ghouta out of its conviction in the need for investigating the crimes of the armed terrorist organizations, noting however that the investigation mission no longer made any mention of what happened in Khan al-Assal or later in other places in Syria.

“This proves by conclusive evidence that the intentions were all focused on the necessity of accusing the government of the Syrian Arab Republic of using chemical weapons because they couldn’t find a better weapon through which they can, as they thought, point the finger of blame at the Syrian government,” Mikdad stressed.

In a relevant context, the Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister said that the recent developments in Syria are the best for the Syrian state since the beginning of the crisis until now, as the Syrian Army and its allies are advancing all over the country and national reconciliations are making great achievements in and around Damascus and in Homs, “which quashed their dreams.”

Mikdad said that the operation of liberating eastern Aleppo will go down in the history of Syria in the framework of putting an end to terrorism and the direct intervention by the US and the old colonialism such as that of France and Britain and some Arab regimes that allied with Israel to kill the Syrian people and destroy its achievements.

He noted that prior to the crisis, Syria was advancing quickly towards achieving economic and human development, and this didn’t make some sides happy whether those inside or outside the region.

Mikdad also touched upon the recent discourse of the US, the West and even the conflicting sides in the Gulf that has left no doubt about the real role which those parties have been playing in conspiring against Syria in terms of arming, funding, harboring and supporting the terrorist organizations in Syria under the orders of Israel and the US with the aim to make the whole region submissive to the Israeli administration