Russian Permanent Representative to the UN: Skripal’s attempt - a terrorist attack of Western special services

At an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, convened at the initiative of Russia in connection with the Skripals case, the Russian Permanent Representative Vasily Nebenia accused the Western special services of Megaprovocation and the terrorist attack against Russian citizens. The meeting was broadcast on the UN website .

For its part, the British representative Karen Pierce said that Russia is responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Salisbury with a high degree of probability. The pier explained that the wording "with a high degree of probability" means that only the court can establish guilt. However, Great Britain has every reason for charges at Russia. She referred to the conclusions of the laboratory employees in Porton Dawn, who established that the Novice substance was used against Skripal and his daughter, the development of which Russia was engaged.

"Russia uses defectors as a target for murder. And we have heard the open statements of Russian leaders about this," she said.

Nebenzya rejected the accusations and stated that the "beginner" is "not a Russian copy." "This name was invented in the West for a line of military poisonous substances that ... were developed in many countries, including in the USA and Great Britain," said the Russian Permanent Representative.

Most representatives of Western countries supported the position of Great Britain. In particular, the France Permanent said that the convocation of the UN Security Council is an attempt to distract attention and sow confusion. "Russia is constantly talking about the advantages of cooperation. Therefore, France is surprised that Russia refused to answer the questions of the United Kingdom," the French diplomat emphasized.

In turn, US representative Nikki Haley said that her country "decisively supports the independent investigation into the OPCO, as well as a criminal investigation of the United Kingdom with regard to the use of chemical weapons in the sovereign territory." “Responsible for the attack must be punished,” she emphasized.

Speaking in Minsk, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov again rejected the prosecution. “If our partners associate the cessation of the current situation with the fact that Russia confesses to all mortal sins and will say:“ I was wrong in everything and everywhere, forgive us sinners ”, if such calculations are still there, then experts in Russia were completely transferred there,” Lavrov said .

In turn, the representative of the Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova drew attention to the fate of the animals of Skripal who died in his house. "Both guinea pigs and the cat were cremated. In other words, they destroyed, although animals could become an important evidence in the poisoning of a chemical engineering," Zakharova wrote on Facebook.

According to the British newspapers, during a search in the house of Skripal, animals did not notice and as a result two guinea pigs died from dehydration, and the cat was strewn due to the fact that he was in a stressful state. Animals were cremated from fear that traces of neuro-paralytic could remain on them.