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The OPCW stated that A. Navalno, who claims to have been poisoned by the Kremlin, had found a “cholinesterase inhibitor” in his blood and urine samples, with “structural characteristics” similar to two substances from the Novičiok group. weapon lists.
However, the substance found in A. Navaln’s body is not classified as prohibited, the OPCW noted.
Last year, four varieties of Novičiok were added to the OPCW’s list of prohibited substances.
The findings published by the OPCW confirm previous research findings from a military laboratory in Germany, where Navaln was brought in for treatment after the poisoning, as well as laboratories in France and Sweden.
The director of the OPCW, Fernando Arias, “sees these results as a matter of great concern,” the organization said in a statement.
Germany has formally requested “technical assistance” from the OPCW, to which members are entitled in the event of a chemical weapons incident.
Mr. Arias added that “the use of chemical weapons by any person in all circumstances is reprehensible and completely contrary to the norms established by the international community.”
He stressed that it was now important for the OPCW members to “adhere to the standard that they had agreed to more than 25 years ago” when they signed the United Nations Chemical Weapons Convention.
On August 20, Navaln became ill and lost consciousness on a plane flying from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow. The ocean liner landed hastily in the city of Omsk, where the opposition was hospitalized in a coma. On August 22, he was transferred to Germany and treated at the Charite clinic in Berlin.
On September 2, the German government announced, based on the results of a military laboratory test, that traces of material from the Novičiok group had been found on the body of A. Navaln.
Material from the same group, according to London, poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England in 2018.
France and Sweden independently confirmed Germany’s findings.
On September 7, Charite reported that Navaln had been awakened from an artificially maintained coma and that his condition had improved. He was later released from the hospital.
According to information from the Defense Ministry, German media reported last month that Berlin had released the results of Navaln’s investigation into the OPCW. The ministry stressed that it saw no reason to send the material directly to Russia.
“In this way, clear signs have been reaffirmed that Alexei Navaln has turned into an attack via the nerve-crippling chemical of the Novičiok group,” said German Chancellor Merkel’s spokesman Stefan Seibert in a statement issued by Berlin following the findings of an OPCW investigation.
“This nerve-racking and publicly unknown fighter has not yet been officially included in the OPCW,” he added.
Russia claims that tests carried out by its medical laboratories did not prove that Navaln was poisoned in any way and it did not accept initial German statements about traces of Novičiok found in the samples, saying that further evidence was needed.
The Kremlin said Tuesday that it had no report from the OPCW confirming that Navaln had been poisoned with the banned substance.
“In any case, before we have that information, it will take time for it to be transmitted through diplomatic channels and for us to receive it. But, apparently, there will be all the necessary information,” the spokesman told reporters. of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov.
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