This is now the third time that I've had the opportunity to address members of the Security Council

about the controversy surrounding the OPCW's investigation of the alleged chemical attack in Duma.

And if I can share one opinion, while I really appreciate this opportunity, I have to say that

I find it unfortunate that nearly five years after that alleged incident in Duma, this controversy

around the OPCW investigation is still being debated in public rather than being addressed

by the OPCW.

Because fundamentally, this is a controversy that is internal to the OPCW.

And at the heart of it are at least two veteran inspectors from the OPCW with nearly 30 years

of combined experience who worked on the Duma investigation, who deployed to Syria for the Duma

investigation. And what they say is very simple. They have accused senior officials at the OPCW

of suppressing findings from their probe and putting out unsupported conclusions that baselessly

implicate the Syrian government in a chemical attack.

And they are not demanding that their own opinions be affirmed as the ultimate truth.

They just want the right to be heard.

And rather than hearing these inspectors, allowing them to come in and voice their concerns,

allowing them to, allowing the OPCW to weigh the findings that were suppressed, the OPTW has refused to meet with them, and these have been denigrated them in public, which I will get into.

So when I talk about the suppression of the Duma Probe,

it's a long story which I've gone through before you before, so I won't

repeat the whole story. But let me just, just to illustrate, give you one example of the documented

suppression of the findings of the Duma probe, which nobody contests. This is uncontested fact.

So the alleged chemical attack happens on April 7, 2018.

Afterwards, OPCW investigators get on the ground.

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