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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas asked the Russian Federation to provide information on the reasons for the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Russia should clarify the situation with the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, otherwise it will face new sanctions.
“If Russia does not clarify what happened in the Navalny case and does not provide information, specific and proportional sanctions against the perpetrators on the Russian side will be inevitable,” he added. wrote Maas on his Twitter.
He added that a common response will be agreed with the European Union and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
Yes #Russia the operations in the case #Nawalny does not clarify or provide information, specific and proportionate sanctions against those responsible on the Russian side will be inevitable. It will vote a common response in the EU and the OPCW.
– Heiko Maas * (@HeikoMaas) October 7, 2020
On August 20, the plane in which Navalny flew from Tomsk to Moscow sat urgently in Omsk due to deteriorating state of politician. Navalny was unconscious in the toxic resuscitation department of the emergency hospital No. 1 in Omsk. On the morning of August 22, he was flown to the Charite clinic in Berlin.
On September 2, the German government announced that traces of a substance similar in composition to Novichok had been found in Navalny’s body. The biological material extracted from the politician was examined by a special laboratory of the German armed forces. The fact of the poisoning of Navalny with poison from the Novichok group was also confirmed by laboratories in France and Sweden.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Berlin’s statements about the Navalny poisoning were not supported by fact. The head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin, claims that at the time of the departure to Germany there were no traces of poison on the body of the politician.
Navalny was in a coma for 18 days. Doctors “Charite” reported on September 7 that Navalny was brought out of a medical coma and disconnected from the ventilator. On September 14, German doctors reported that the politician is feeling better and is on his feet. On September 22, Navalny was discharged from the clinic, he is in rehabilitation.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that The European Union will impose sanctions against Russia in the event that the conclusions of the German, Swedish and French laboratories on the poisoning of Navalny with a substance from the Novichok group are confirmed by experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
The OPCW confirmed on October 6 that biomarkers for a cholinesterase inhibitor had been found in Navalny’s body. This is a little known nerve agent that has not yet been included on the official OPCW list.
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