MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The mandate of the Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW), which gives her an accusatory functions is, in fact, an attempt to weaken the UN Security Council. This opinion of the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko expressed in the program “Vesti on Saturday” on TV channel “Russia 1”, aired in the far East.

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“Recently there was a story about changing the mandate of the Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. The fact is unprecedented: this is the expert technical organisation, but it has empowered almost prosecutorial, and, in fact, is an attempt to weaken the UN Security Council, removing this function,” she said .

Matvienko noted that currently in the world there is a “very serious situation for the destruction of international institutions, international agreements, international rules,” stressing that they “kept the world from chaos”.

On Wednesday, the OPCW adopted the British draft changes to its mandate, giving her an accusatory functions. The document was adopted with 82 votes in favour and 24 against.