Fourteen countries that are members of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) supported the Russian statement on the incident in Salisbury. This is stated in the communication of the permanent representation of our country in the organization. The statement was considered during today's special meeting of the executive council of the organization in The Hague. The text of the memorandum is not yet open to the general public. It is only known that representatives of our country insisted that the problem of the Salisbury incident be resolved "within the legal framework", using the full potential of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Earlier, Russia's permanent representative to the OPCW Alexander Shulgin said that the Russian side intends to make constructive proposals for a civilized investigation of the incident that occurred in the British city of Salisbury. Most countries did not support Russia's statement. Total members of the organization are 191 countries. With the sharpest criticism of our position, the representatives of European states. "The European Union does not approve the proposed draft statement," said Krasimir Kostov, Bulgaria's permanent representative to the OPCW, who represents the whole EU at this meeting. The diplomat also added that the European Union is "extremely concerned" by the fact that the Russian side is allegedly "preparing the ground for rejecting the results of the OPCW's work on the Salisbury incident".

"It is extremely important for the Russian Federation to respond to the legitimate questions of the British government, start cooperating with the OPCW secretariat and ensure full and complete disclosure of information for the OPCW under a program that has an attitude towards the incident," he said.. Preliminary results of the OPCW's work were presented the day before. Head of the defense scientific and technical laboratory in the British city of Porton Down Gary Aitkenhead stated that the specialists identified the nerve agent used in Salisbury as "Novice", but could not establish its origin. After that, Moscow convened an emergency meeting of the OPCW to "consider the situation around allegations of non-compliance" of the convention on the prohibition of chemical weapons, in which the United Kingdom accuses Russia.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of our country noted at the same time that the OPCW essentially answered just one question from the list of 13 issues that the Russian Federation addressed to the experts of the organization involved in the investigation of the poisoning of ex-colonel GRU Sergey Skripal and his daughter. The request to convene a special meeting of the OPCW caused a strange reaction from London. British officials accused the Russian Federation of trying to undermine the work of the organization to investigate the "case of Skripal". It is noteworthy that at the same time, the UK Foreign Office removed from the official Twitter account a message on March 22 stating that the laboratory in Porton Down had confirmed the origin of the chemical from Russia.

Representatives of the Foreign Office do not say whether this means that the British no longer believe that the "Beginner" was brought from the Russian Federation. The rightness of London is no longer believed and the allies of the British. The representative of Germany's largest party and close associate of Angela Merkel Armin Lashet criticized the statements of the British side. According to the politician, London had to first provide irrefutable evidence of Russia's involvement in the scandal, before calling on other countries to respond, the "Fifth Channel".