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French President Emmanuel Macron asked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for clarification on Monday during a telephone conversation about the poisoning of Russian opponent Aleksei Navalny, whom he described as an “assassination attempt.” Putin dismissed the accusations as “unacceptable and without foundation.”
Macron called on Putin to “shed all the light without delay” on the “assassination attempt” of Aleksei Navalny by “poisoning a Novociok-class agent,” the Elysee Palace said in a press release.
“A clarification from Russia is needed in a credible and transparent investigation,” the French head of state told Putin, adding that “France shares, based on its own analysis, the conclusions of various European partners on the poisonings. Navalnîi)” .
For his part, Vladimir Putin described this Monday as “unacceptable”, “unfounded” and “unfounded” the accusations made against Russia in the Navalny case, during the telephone conversation with Emmanuel Macron, according to a statement from the Russian presidency.
“The situation surrounding the Navalny case has been thoroughly addressed, with Vladimir Putin underscoring the inappropriate nature of these baseless allegations against the Russian side,” the statement quoted by Agerpres said.
The Russian president stressed that “to clarify the real circumstances of what happened, German specialists must provide Russia with biological samples, the medical report with the results of Navalny’s tests and the start of a joint action with Russian doctors.”
The condition of Russian dissident Aleksei Navalny continues to improve and the patient can now get out of bed for short periods of time, the Berlin hospital where he is hospitalized announced on Monday.
Until now, France has spoken out on the case at the G7 and EU level at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Western criticism multiplied last week. The EU has called for possible sanctions, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that Germany does not rule out freezing its flagship gas pipeline project in Russia, Nord Stream 2, to supply Russian gas to Europe via the Baltic Sea.
The G7 countries, including France, on Tuesday called on Moscow to bring to justice “urgently” the perpetrators of the “confirmed poisoning” of Navalny, denouncing any use of chemical weapons as unacceptable.
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