The portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears on the window of a Syrian army truck upon its arrival at the Syrian border town of Jdaidet Yabous from Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on April 24, 2005. (Xinhua File photo)
DAMASCUS, March 7 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Thursday rejected as "full of falsifications" a report that chemical weapons were likely used in the attack on Douma district near the capital Damascus last year, state news agency SANA reported.
The report by the fact-finding mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) ignored the testimonies of eyewitnesses that rebels who then controlled Douma staged the attack, the ministry said.
The lack of professionalism made it easy for the Syrian experts to discover the misleading information in the report, it added.
Meanwhile, the ministry promised continued cooperation with the intergovernmental organization as part of the commitment of the Syrian government.
In its recent report, the OPCW said there are reasonable grounds that chlorine was used during the Douma attack.
Western powers, especially the United States, accuse the Syrian government forces of launching a chlorine gas attack on Douma when the area was controlled by the rebels.
