Russian Permanent Representative to the OPCW named the countries that deprived Russia of a seat on the organization's executive board

Washington, London and Paris forced other member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to vote for the Czech Republic and North Macedonia in order to deprive Russia of its seat on the OPCW executive board, Russian Ambassador to the Netherlands and Russia's permanent representative to the organization Vladimir Tarabrin told Izvestia.

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"Western countries organized individual and collective demarches, visiting the diplomatic missions and foreign ministries of the participating states more than once. They persuaded, and sometimes forced (we know this for a fact) to vote for the Czech Republic and North Macedonia, sponsored trips and stays in The Hague for representatives of small island states," the diplomat said.

He said that in private conversations the ambassadors of some states characterized the U.S. desire to prevent Russia's membership in the Executive Council with the word "obsession."

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Chemistry between them: Russia lost its seat on the OPCW executive board because of three countries