[ad_1]
Foreign Minister Winston Peters called the poisoning of the Russian opposition leader “deeply disturbing.”
Your playlist will load after this announcement.
A banned chemical weapon was used on Alexei Navalny, doctors revealed. Source: 1 NEWS
Alexie Navalny was ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow two weeks ago and was later transferred to a hospital in Berlin.
A spokeswoman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the tests showed “evidence without doubt of a nerve chemical agent from the Novichok group.”
Peters said today that it raises “serious concerns.”
“Germany’s announcement that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the banned nerve agent Novichok is deeply disturbing.
Winston Peters. Source: 1 NEWS
“New Zealand encourages Russia’s cooperation with the international community to provide responses.”
The AAP reported that Russian doctors who treated Navalny said his poison tests had come back negative.
