Russia vows to bring White Helmets' filming boy to OPCW
Date
4/23/2018 6:52:01 AM
(MENAFN) Russian Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Alexander Shulgin pledged to spare no effort to have a Syrian teenage boy who can be seen in a video the White Helmets NGO presents as evidence to government troops' using chemical weapons speak at the OPCW to testify the attack was a provocation.
"At a certain point, I told my Western colleagues: we, probably, will have to use another language, since you don't understand what we are saying. We will bring here, in The Hague, eyewitnesses who will personally tell you it was a choreographed provocation. I will do my best to have this boy speak here," Shulgin said in an interview with the NTV television channel on Sunday.
He did not eliminate the possibility that the boy would not be let speak at the OPCW, saying that "Everything is possible. They don't want to hear anything. They stop at nothing. Everywhere they use their steamroller methods, they leave destruction and chaos behind," the Russian diplomat noted.
The Rossiya-24 television channel aired an interview with a boy, Hassan Dial, 11, who had taken part in the White Helmets' filming.
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