The “three aggressors” showed the terrorist groups that they can “continue to commit their crimes not only in Syria but in other countries” as well, Bashar al-Jaafari said, referring to Washington, London and Paris.

The airstrikes targeting the Syrian civil and military facilities were also apparently an attempt to prevent the OPCW investigators from doing their work even before the investigation of the alleged incident in Douma even started, al-Jaafari said. He also rhetorically asked why the western countries did not inform the OPCW or any other relevant international organization about the alleged chemical facilities they supposedly uncovered in Syria before launching the strikes.

He also questioned why the Western powers, who claimed Damascus used chemical weapons, did not share their evidence with the OPCW.

The Syrian envoy to the UN said that the western aggression would not “prevent the Syrian people from deciding their own political future.”

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