Syria urged the United Nations to take immediate steps against Qatar over Doha’s support to terrorist organizations responsible for heinous crimes in the crisis-hit country.

Syria urged the United Nations to take immediate steps against Qatar over Doha’s support to terrorist organizations responsible for heinous crimes in the crisis-hit country.

In a letter sent to the UN Secretary General and the Security Council on Wednesday, the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry responded a similar letter to the international organization by Qatar accusing Syria of using chemical weapons.

Damascus rejected Doha’s allegations as false, saying Qatar’s letter was “desperate bid to polish its image, cover up its support for terrorism, distort facts, and distract UN and Security Council member states from the direct support provided to terrorist organizations that target the Syrian people and undermine the security and stability of the Syrian state.”

“It’s ironic for Qatar to join the choir of states that send to the UN letters against Syria that are full of misdirection and fact-twisting, specifically when Qatar claims that Syria used chemical weapons against its own people when in fact the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) confirmed that Syria has carried out its commitments as per the Chemical Weapons Convention and with full cooperation with the OPCW,” the Syrian foreign ministry said in Wednesday letter, according to SANA news agency.

The Ministry said that Qatari media outlets are carrying out promotion and propaganda campaigns for terrorist organizations active in Syria and defending them vehemently, with the most recent example of that being when Al Jazeera hosted on May 27th 2015 an “emir” of Jabhet al-Nusra known as Abu Mohammad al-Golani who is listed on a Security Council list on Al Qaeda, conducting an interview with him to promote terrorism and issue threats to the Syrian government and people.

The appearance of Abu Mohammad al-Golani on Al Jazeera “is solid proof of the organic relations and strong cooperation between his terrorist organization on one side and Al Jazeera and the Qatari sides that own it on the other side.”