Haley: U.S. stands in absolute solidarity with Great Britain. The pair remain in serious condition in the hospital along with a police officer who was exposed while responding to the incident. It has vowed a swift response to the expulsion of its diplomats.
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UN Security Council had an emergency session on March 14, when Great Britain confirmed that Russian Federation used Novichok agent to poison Skripal and his daughter.
Russian Federation today retaliated, announcing it will remove British diplomats from its ranks and the British position was irresponsible.
The Ministry said: “We consider it categorically unacceptable and unworthy that the British Government, in its unseemly political aims, further seriously aggravated relations, announcing a whole set of hostile measures, including the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats from the country”.
Moscow wanted to “simultaneously deny it and at the same time to glory in it”, he said, adding the nerve agent was chosen “to show that it is Russia”.
“Russia must fully cooperate with the UK’s investigation and come clean about its own chemical weapons program”. On Friday, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said it was overwhelmingly likely that Russian President Vladimir Putin himself had made the decision to use a military-grade nerve toxin to strike down Skripal.
“The most probable source origin (of) this chemical are the countries which have since the end of the 90s been carrying. out intensive research on these kinds of weapons, including the UK”, Nebenzia said.
Even to this day, no nation aside from Russian Federation is known to have developed Novichok. Moscow did not address the matter before the deadline.
Many are warning that Britain’s actions alone, or even in concert with others, will have no impact on Mr. Putin’s global misbehavior and will only serve to increase tensions and build his domestic support.
Ms May said Britain would also clamp down on murky Russian money and strengthen the government’s ability to impose sanctions on those who abuse human rights, though she gave few details.
They said they “abhor the attack”.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump said the United States were taking the incident “very seriously”. No explanation as to how this agent came to be used in the United Kingdom; no explanation as to why Russian Federation has an undeclared chemical weapons program in contravention of global law.
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“We do hold Russian Federation culpable for this brazen, brazen act and despicable act”, she said.
