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The poisoning of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny and the conclusions of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on the use of a nerve agent from the Novichok group at the Russian Foreign Ministry was called a fantastic story with a conspiracy scenario. .
Russia will present its vision of the situation with the interaction between Germany and the Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the case of the poisoning of the Russian. opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This statement was published by the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry on October 6.
“A fantastic story, indeed, started by Berlin by its Euro-Atlantic allies, together with the leadership of the OPCW technical secretariat, continued according to a previously planned conspiracy scenario,” it was reported.
The Foreign Ministry promised to provide the OPCW member states with “a chronology of the behind-the-scenes manipulations of the main characters in this performance.”
“We would like to remind you that numerous requests from the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation addressed in accordance with the European Legal Assistance Convention of 1959 to the authorities of Germany, France and Sweden remain unanswered and are allegedly still being considered,” said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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 is not officially listed.
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.
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