#ChemicalWeapons #OPCW #CSP29 @GPWMDofficial @jhsph_chs Excellent session yesterday (27/11) on #disinformation and how to counter it organised by @CanadaOPCW. Yesterday and today have been the worst moments in my memory of spouting vile disinformation. This included that Syria NEVER used CW, the West is financing fundamentalist Islamic terrorists in Syria, the #UK is training up to 100,000 terrorists, and the West and the UK (it depended on the moment) were delivering CW or their components to those terrorists for use against Syria, etc. I do not even mention #Russia's "evidence" that the same West is providing #Ukraine️ with CW for use against it. Or that the #EU's #sanctions prevent Russia from exporting manure (literally: shit) to Africa. (In its right of reply, the EU said that manure and food are excluded from its sanctions.) But the most vile accusations are against the OPCW for carrying out its #CWC mandates to investigate allegations of CW use and identify perpetrators (Verification Annex, Part XII). They quite literally undermine the authority of the organisation and the norm it protects. Yet, those same states (#Belarus included) praise that same organisation when it comes to securing their rights under Article XI, which, so they say, the West violates with its export controls. It all falls so neatly in the disinformation taxonomy that was presented yesterday.