The UK has
refused a request from the Investigative Committee of Russia for mutual
assistance in the investigation of the Skripale case, said Russian
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“For
several months, this request was kept unanswered. A few days ago, a
response was received, which officially stated that for reasons of
national security, the United Kingdom could not provide us with
assistance in this particular criminal case related to the fate of
citizens of the Russian Federation,” he said in an interview RT France, Paris Match and Figaro.
Sergei
Skripal has dual citizenship - Russian and British, but Yulia Skripal -
only Russian, and international conventions require London to provide
access to it, the foreign minister recalled.
On
March 4, the former GRU officer Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia
were poisoned in Salisbury, which provoked a major international
scandal: in London they immediately rushed to blame Russia for this.
Moscow has repeatedly offered to conduct a joint investigation, but Britain ignored this initiative. The
Foreign Ministry also caught Prime Minister Teresa May in a lie: she
claimed that the poison had been made in Russia, but in Porton-Down
laboratory it was refuted.
Later,
London presented photographs of the two “suspects,” claiming that these
were GRU officers, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. The
men themselves said in an interview with the editor-in-chief of Sputnik
and RT Margarita Simonyan that they visited Britain as tourists and are
not associated with the special services.
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