Experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have determined the chemical composition of the substance that Sergei and Yulia Skripali were poisoned and confirmed that it is not in the banned toxins. This was announced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday, April 13. At the same time, some kind of gas "Novice" is not mentioned in the report at all. "There are no literary names there is not given.
It is only said that this substance is not on the list, which is approved in the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and on which the member states should report, "the RIA Novosti quotes the minister. Currently, Russian experts are studying the report, which the OPCW commission presented on Thursday, April 12. As Lavrov noted, the document "has very interesting moments," which Russia hopes to share with the public in the very near future. For example, in the "closed" part of the report, OPCW experts indicated "a detailed, long chemical formula for the substance" that was used in Salisbury. However, statements by British authorities, and in particular Foreign Minister Boris Johnson that the OPCW confirmed London's accusations against Moscow, are untrue. "Politicians such as Boris Johnson have once again tried to distort the truth and state that the statement of the OPCW means supporting all of the UK's conclusions without exception, including the likely ones.
This is another excess of this policy. Everyone is used to it already, "Lavrov said at a news conference after a meeting with the Dutch Foreign Minister Steve Bloch. Ex-Colonel GRU Sergei Skripal and his 34-year-old daughter Julia were poisoned in the British Salisbury on March 4. Premier of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, without waiting for the end of the investigation, said that the incident was "very likely". highly likely) put his hand to the Kremlin. In Moscow, all the accusations deny.