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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on Moscow to cooperate fully on the issue of the poisoning of Russian opposition Alexei Navalny, considering that the case requires an international response, while Russia said it is examining the hypothesis of an attempt to murder.
At a press conference that followed a special NATO meeting that focused on this issue, Stoltenberg said that any use of chemical weapons shows a lack of respect for human life and represents an unacceptable violation of international norms and norms.
“The Russian government should fully cooperate with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in an impartial international investigation and uncover its Novichok nerve gas program,” Stoltenberg added.
The European Union had urged Russia to open an investigation and cooperate as part of an international investigation into the Navalny poisoning, hinting at the possibility of imposing sanctions on Moscow.
For its part, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons expressed grave concern after Germany announced that Navalny had been poisoned by the nerve gas “Novichok”.
Russian position
On the other hand, Russia has expressed its desire to dialogue with Germany in the Navalny case, to obtain information on the substance with which Berlin claims to have been poisoned.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian experts are investigating the issue, adding that the Russian doctors who supervised Navalny’s treatment before his transfer to Germany were more transparent than their German counterparts who are treating him now, like him. he said himself.
In the same context, the chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Council of the Russian Federation described the calls for the participation of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the case of the opposition Alexei Navalny as politicized and premature .
Russia’s Investigative Authority said it had asked one of its Siberian branches to investigate the hypothesis of the Navalny assassination attempt.
A Russian toxicologist who analyzed Navalny’s medical record said on Friday that the opponent may be the victim of a digestion problem, alcohol abuse or stress, rejecting the result of the poisoning diagnosed in Germany.
Alexander Sabaev, a chief toxicologist in the Omsk region, where the Kremlin’s most prominent opponent was treated in late August before being transferred to Germany, said: “His body did not react with poison, and this means there was no poison, This is clear”.
The “Ria Novosti” agency quoted the Russian expert as saying that he did not reveal any traces of poisoning after analyzing Navalny’s lungs, liver and kidneys.
The Russian doctors did not notice the presence of traces of “Novichok”, in contrast to the results achieved by the German authorities.
And Germany, which is treating Navalny in one of its hospitals, had announced that he had been poisoned with the nerve gas “Novichok”, and that laboratory tests carried out in a military laboratory showed what Berlin called conclusive evidence of the existence of derived from the nerve gas group “Novichok”.
Navalny, 44, a lawyer who is among the most staunch critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin, fell ill while on a flight last month and was treated at a hospital in Siberia before being evacuated to Berlin.
It should be noted that Russia has not yet opened a criminal investigation, and denies the existence of evidence of any crime, and the Kremlin has rejected the charges against it for being behind the poisoning of the opposition leader.
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