Russia has requested a meeting of the United Nations Security Council today as it again tries to discredit Theresa May and Britain’s handling of the Salisbury attack. Moscow’s UN ambassador in New York has requested a special meeting expected to take place later today, during which it will try to shift the blame away from the Kremlin. Calling for the meeting on Thursday morning, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said that Britain cannot ignore Moscow's "legitimate questions" over the poisoning of an ex-spy, as he called for a "substantial and responsible" probe into the case. It comes after British security sources are believed to have identified the Russian laboratory where the Novichok... Register or log in to view this and other Politics articles. It's free and easy to do. Join regular debates with our journalists by commenting on articles Sign up to exclusive newsletters that give you the inside track on Westminster and Brexit Register Log in … [Read more...] about Russia calls UN Security Council meeting over Skripal poisoning as security minister insists no more intelligence will be released because it puts lives at risk
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Russia Takes Skripal Poisoning Case Before UN Security Council
Russia takes its case before the UN Security Council on April 5, calling for an international investigation into the poisoning of a Russian spy in Britain one day after losing a bid for a joint investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog. London has said it is "highly likely" Moscow was behind the March 4 attack with a military-grade nerve agent on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, but Russia has insisted it is innocent and is taking its case before world bodies. Both sides have already suspended high-level contacts, and more than two dozen Western countries have joined Britain in expelling over 150 diplomats in retaliation for the poisonings, with Russia responding in kind. British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson welcomed Russia's defeat April 4 in its bid to establish a joint investigation of the incident with Britain, which was turned down on a 15-6 vote at a meeting of the decision-making body of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical … [Read more...] about Russia Takes Skripal Poisoning Case Before UN Security Council
Russia wants United Nations Security Council to discuss spy poisoning
News / UK and world by Press Association April 5, 2018, 7:11 am FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter Russia has called for the United Nations Security Council to meet on Thursday to discuss the Salisbury attack after it lost a bid to stage a joint investigation with the UK into the poisoning. Boris Johnson has attacked Moscow for trying to “obscure the truth and confuse the public” about the nerve-agent assault on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Russia called a meeting of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague on Wednesday to insist its experts must be involved in the testing programme and probe. But it lost the vote after Britain told the extraordinary meeting the demand was a sign the federation was “nervous” of what the inquiries will find. Moscow has asked for an open session of the UN Security Council to be held on Thursday at 8pm UK time. UK … [Read more...] about Russia wants United Nations Security Council to discuss spy poisoning
Russia calls U.N. Security Council meeting on Salisbury attack
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia has requested the United Nations Security Council meet on Thursday to discuss British accusations that Moscow used a nerve agent to attack a former Russian spy in England last month, Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said on Wednesday. Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia speaks during an urgent meeting called by Great Britain to the United Nations Security Council to brief members on former spy poisoning at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., March 14, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo Nebenzia said the meeting would be convened on the basis of a March 13 letter sent to the U.N. Security Council by British Prime Minister Theresa May, which said Moscow was “highly likely” responsible for the attack. The 15-member council first met on March 14, at the request of Britain, to discuss the attack in Britain’s Salisbury. Reporting by Michelle Nichols … [Read more...] about Russia calls U.N. Security Council meeting on Salisbury attack
Russia requests Security Council meeting on spy poisoning
1 / 1 Russia requests Security Council meeting on spy poisoning United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Russia has asked for a UN Security Council meeting over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain, the country's ambassador to the UN announced Wednesday. Vassily Nebenzia said Russia was requesting a meeting Thursday at 1900 GMT over the British government's implication of Moscow in the nerve agent attack on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Nebenzia said the council would soon receive a letter clarifying the Russian position. The Kremlin has vehemently denied any involvement in the March 4 attack, which Britain says was carried out with a military-grade nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union. On March 14, the council held an emergency meeting at the request of Britain over the row, which has triggered a wave of tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions and inflamed tensions between Russia and Western governments. A few days after the poisoning … [Read more...] about Russia requests Security Council meeting on spy poisoning