#Novichok is not a weapon that can be manufactured by non-state actors… #Russia has provided no credible explanation… Therefore, we have no alternative but to conclude that the #Russian state was responsible [for a chemical weapons attack on my country].
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Russia has a history of political assassinations, interfering in other countries & a total disregard for civilian life.
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The U.S believes that #Russia is responsible for the CW attack in #Salisbury.
#Moscow has used its veto x5 times to cover #Assad’s use of chemical weapons in #Syria.
If Russia stopped using CWs to assassinate its enemies overseas… we might stop criticizing you.
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We have a responsibility to make #Russia accountable.
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We’ve head this all before - with regards to #Syria. Not exactly convincing.
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Hearing your invectives against us is odd, especially when you have no evidence.
This incident has no benefit to #Russia, but I can name a number of countries who do stand to gain - but I won’t name them here.
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We could all do with a Sherlock Holmes in this [UN Security] Council.
We have nothing to fear & nothing to hide.
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- We believe in the international rules-based system…
I described the Chemical Weapons Convention in some detail… As per CWC Article 9, we asked #Russia for an explanation - their response was to consider our question "null and void.”
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You ask us why we wanted a quick answer… because delaying is part-in-parcel of #Russia’s playbook - delay, delay, delay and distract… We learned that lesson after #Litvinenko."
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.@mfa_russia’s Zakharova - 'When in the center of Great Britain, chemical weapons are used, this is a very serious matter…'
@lindseyhilsum - 'So you do accept that this was a chemical weapons attack?'
Zakharova - 'We don’t know. We have no information on this.'
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