٠٠:٠٣:٤٢Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova hold her weekly press briefing in Moscow on Thursday, commenting on the doping scandal around Russian sport and the OPCW report on the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria’s Douma in April 2018.
The spokesperson said that Russia has “repeatedly questioned the validity of the conclusions presented by the OPCW mission based on the results” of the alleged Douma attack, following an email published by WikiLeaks, in which a purported member of the OPCW accused the organisation of altering the findings of the fact-finding mission.
Despite the leak, the head of the world's chemical weapons watchdog Fernando Arias said in an OPCW meeting on Monday that he stands by the report and its findings.
Zakharova went on to discuss the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) committee’s recommendation to ban Russia from all global sport for four years.
“It is impossible not to notice how the issue of doping, which is present in all countries and with which all countries are trying to fight, is focused exclusively and only on Russia,” she said.
“We have already had to answer these questions for so many years. It is really about politicising this issue for simply to squeeze Russia,” Zakharova concluded.
WADA announced on Monday that its independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) recommended that Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) be declared non-compliant with the world anti-doping code after the CRC's investigation found that data handed over from a Moscow laboratory had been manipulated.
The CRC report also recommended that Russia be banned from all global sport for four years, which, among other things, could mean new restrictions on its athletes and teams at next year's Tokyo Olympics.
WADA's Executive Committee will hold a meeting in Paris on December 9 and vote on the CRC's recommendations.
The long-running doping saga goes back to 2015 when RUSADA was first declared non-compliant after a WADA-commissioned report by sports lawyer Professor Richard McLaren alleged "institutionalised" doping programme in Russia.
Russia: Zakharova slams ‘political’ doping ban threat, questions OPCW’s Douma report
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova hold her weekly press briefing in Moscow on Thursday, commenting on the doping scandal around Russian sport and the OPCW report on the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria’s Douma in April 2018.
The spokesperson said that Russia has “repeatedly questioned the validity of the conclusions presented by the OPCW mission based on the results” of the alleged Douma attack, following an email published by WikiLeaks, in which a purported member of the OPCW accused the organisation of altering the findings of the fact-finding mission.
Despite the leak, the head of the world's chemical weapons watchdog Fernando Arias said in an OPCW meeting on Monday that he stands by the report and its findings.
Zakharova went on to discuss the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) committee’s recommendation to ban Russia from all global sport for four years.
“It is impossible not to notice how the issue of doping, which is present in all countries and with which all countries are trying to fight, is focused exclusively and only on Russia,” she said.
“We have already had to answer these questions for so many years. It is really about politicising this issue for simply to squeeze Russia,” Zakharova concluded.
WADA announced on Monday that its independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) recommended that Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) be declared non-compliant with the world anti-doping code after the CRC's investigation found that data handed over from a Moscow laboratory had been manipulated.
The CRC report also recommended that Russia be banned from all global sport for four years, which, among other things, could mean new restrictions on its athletes and teams at next year's Tokyo Olympics.
WADA's Executive Committee will hold a meeting in Paris on December 9 and vote on the CRC's recommendations.
The long-running doping saga goes back to 2015 when RUSADA was first declared non-compliant after a WADA-commissioned report by sports lawyer Professor Richard McLaren alleged "institutionalised" doping programme in Russia.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova hold her weekly press briefing in Moscow on Thursday, commenting on the doping scandal around Russian sport and the OPCW report on the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria’s Douma in April 2018.
The spokesperson said that Russia has “repeatedly questioned the validity of the conclusions presented by the OPCW mission based on the results” of the alleged Douma attack, following an email published by WikiLeaks, in which a purported member of the OPCW accused the organisation of altering the findings of the fact-finding mission.
Despite the leak, the head of the world's chemical weapons watchdog Fernando Arias said in an OPCW meeting on Monday that he stands by the report and its findings.
Zakharova went on to discuss the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) committee’s recommendation to ban Russia from all global sport for four years.
“It is impossible not to notice how the issue of doping, which is present in all countries and with which all countries are trying to fight, is focused exclusively and only on Russia,” she said.
“We have already had to answer these questions for so many years. It is really about politicising this issue for simply to squeeze Russia,” Zakharova concluded.
WADA announced on Monday that its independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) recommended that Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) be declared non-compliant with the world anti-doping code after the CRC's investigation found that data handed over from a Moscow laboratory had been manipulated.
The CRC report also recommended that Russia be banned from all global sport for four years, which, among other things, could mean new restrictions on its athletes and teams at next year's Tokyo Olympics.
WADA's Executive Committee will hold a meeting in Paris on December 9 and vote on the CRC's recommendations.
The long-running doping saga goes back to 2015 when RUSADA was first declared non-compliant after a WADA-commissioned report by sports lawyer Professor Richard McLaren alleged "institutionalised" doping programme in Russia.