The Foreign Ministry accused the OPCW of “exceeding its powers” ​​in the case of Navalny’s poisoning

The Foreign Ministry accused the technical secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) of “exceeding its powers” ​​when analyzing samples of the poisoned politician Alexei Navalny. This is reported on the ministry's website.

“The role of the OPCW technical secretariat in this situation is very questionable. “Particular attention is drawn to the fact that from the moment the Director General received information from the German side on September 3 about the alleged “poisoning” of Navalny, the technical secretariat took certain “preparatory measures” in anticipation of a request from Germany and was in constant contact with Berlin,” the ministry said in a statement.

In addition, the Foreign Ministry accused the OPCW of the fact that the organization did not have the right to disclose information about the analysis of the oppositionist’s samples without Russia’s consent. According to the ministry, the organization’s experts independently took Navalny’s tests on September 5-6. At the same time, the OPCW sent an official request for this only on September 12-13, the Foreign Ministry writes.

“Thus, the technical secretariat began to provide “assistance” in this politicized matter without a proper mandate. Moreover, in the statement of the German government on September 14, the transfer of samples to the OPCW was already presented as a fait accompli, while the technical secretariat itself first confirmed to us its involvement in this process only on September 17,” the release says.

According to the ministry, all this “openly exposes the bias and engagement of the technical secretariat.”

In addition, the Foreign Ministry “has questions” about the normal well-being of those around Navalny on the day of the poisoning, “who logically should have suffered.” “However, this did not happen, apparently also due to some happy coincidence. In a word, amazing things happened everywhere, bordering on the fantastic,” the press service notes.