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Russia’s Permanent Representation to the OPCW says it has received only one substantive answer from the chemical weapons watchdog regarding the probe into the poisoning of the former Russian double agent and his daughter. “Last night, the OPCW Technical Secretariat handed them [answers] over to the [Russian] permanent representatives [to the OPCW], we are examining […]
Russian President Putin said he hopes the upcoming UN chemical watchdog meeting will put to rest the UK’s accusations against Russia in the Skripal poisoning case, adding that 20 other countries could produce the nerve agent used. “Tomorrow we convene a session of the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons […]
Moscow advocates an open and transparent investigation of the Salisbury incident, Russia’s envoy to OPCW has said. If Russian experts are barred from taking part in it, any results of the probe will be rejected, he warned. “Our position is clear. We advocate a comprehensive, open and unbiased investigation. Russia is ready for it, and […]
Russia has sent a list of 13 questions to the UN’s chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW, demanding answers on its involvement in the British probe into the poisoning by a nerve agent of former double agent Sergei Skripal. The letter was published by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday, a day after similar questionnaires were […]
The UK will hand the nerve agent used in ex-double agent Sergei Skripal’s poisoning to a UN watchdog, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said as he accused Russia of stockpiling the chemical. Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Johnson said experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) would arrive in the […]
The ‘Novichok’ nerve agent allegedly used in the Sergei Skripal attack likely came from a country were Russian chemists were taken after the Soviet Union collapsed to continue their research, Russia’s OPCW envoy told RT. “As for ‘Novichok,’ there was never a scientific program under such a codename in the Russian Federation,” Alexander Shulgin, Russia’s […]
The UN chemical weapons watchdog said none of its member states have declared possessing ‘Novichok-class’ nerve agent, which London claims was used in the poisoning of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal. “There is no record of the Novichok group of nerve agents having been declared by a state party to the Chemical Weapons Convention,” the Organization […]
Damascus denounced a report by UN’s chemical weapons watchdog on April chemical incident in Idlib as one-sided, lacking evidence and aimed at encouraging terrorists as they lose ground. It also denied reports of deploying chlorine against rebels. The fact-finding mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), tasked with investigation of the […]
Russia has demanded the immediate dispatch of an independent fact-finding mission to the site of last month’s chemical incident in Idlib and the airbase from where the attack was allegedly launched, noting that constant delays discredit the OPCW and render its mandate irrelevant. Over 80 people were killed and 200 others injured on April 4, […]
Russia has questioned the integrity of a French intelligence report, which blames the Syrian government for the Idlib chemical attack, emphasizing that no amount of national probes will ever make up for the absence of an impartial international investigation. “It seems that these countries either do not trust the OPCW, or trying to influence its […]
