Posted on 03/13/2018 1:42:37 PM PDT by Mariner
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will only respond to a British demand it provide answers about the nerve agent that poisoned former double agent Sergei Skripal if London lets Moscow analyze the substance, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said it was "highly likely" that Moscow was responsible for the poisoning in England of Skripal and his daughter using a military-grade nerve agent that was part of the Novichok group of nerve agents developed by the Soviet military.
Lavrov said the British government was obliged to provide Moscow access to the substance because Britain and Russia were signatories to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
But London had so far refused to provide Moscow access to the substance and other materials related to the poisoning case, Lavrov said.
"On these absolutely legitimate demands ... we received a gibberish response, which in general can be summarized by saying that we were denied these legitimate requests," he said.
Britain should fulfill its international obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention before Russia will respond to its request, Lavrov said.
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They’ve used similar methods in the past, poisoning enemies with both dioxin and radioactive isotopes.
“Who’s to say that this wasn’t a false flag operation?”
Who’s to say everyone that parrots “false flag operation” on the internet isn’t part of a false flag operation?
Well who’s to say that everyone who accuses someone of being in a false flag operation because they supposedly parrot false flag operation on the internet isnt part of an even bigger false false false flag operation?
“Theyve used similar methods in the past, poisoning enemies with both dioxin and radioactive isotopes.”
That is shocking. Can you imagine a nation using dioxin on an enemy?
(meanwhile, back at the agent orange clinic at the VA.)
maybe some of those little green men stayed behind in Ukraine?
Why not do the same with the nerve agent as was done with the Syrian nerve agent - send it to Brussels. Russia, if they like, can send their own sample to Brussels of the named agent, and the labs there can compare the two, and with the results from Syria. Throw it at the walls of the UN. That way it’s not one or two countries accusing Russia and it would be hard for Russia to challenge any results Brussels came up with.
I think Russia has it’s own Hillary Clintons/McCabes/Comey’s and others who consider themselves powers and who are at odds with the rest of Russia...
I just see three possibilities, and have no clue about British-Russian relationship to even venture a guess.
1. Russia did it
2. Someone is intentionally framing Russia
3. Some third party did it with old Russian stock
Someone is trying to start a war between Russia and the West. Hope we find out the truth here, before it’s too late.
Can’t disagree - an Russia does have a history....
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