The UK has requested a UN Security Council meeting next week to discuss the OPCW’s report into the Salisbury poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) published a summary of its analysis, which confirmed the British findings on the nerve agent used in last month’s poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal his daughter Yulia and a police officer who assisted them, in the English city of Salisbury.
It did not however provide any evidence on where the nerve agent may have originated from.
The British mission to the UN has requested a meeting of the Security Council on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) report. “We expect this to be held next week,” the mission said in a tweet.
Despite the UK government’s claims of Russian ‘culpability‘ for the poisoning, the report doesn’t assign blame for the incident. The watchdog’s executive summary of the findings did not specifically name the chemical agent, although said it has been named in the full classified report.
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