The German Permanent Mission to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) responded to the Russian mission’s note on the incident with blogger Alexei Navalny, rejecting Russia’s claims.
“Germany strongly rejects the absolutely unfounded allegations made by the Russian Federation. It also strongly rejects attempts to discredit other participating countries, as well as question the professionalism and impartiality of the technical secretariat, ”reads a statement published on the OPCW website…
In addition, according to the Permanent Mission of Germany, the Russian note dated October 7 on the incident “does not contain answers to many questions sent to the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation by a group of 45 countries.”
In turn, France did not begin to give a course to the request of the Russian Federation for legal assistance in the Navalny case.
“The Permanent Mission of Russia mentions in its message that the request for a request for mutual criminal assistance was addressed to the French authorities. As we have already stated many times, in particular, during the 25th Conference of Member States, we analyzed it and decided not to give it a go. First of all, it is the responsibility of Russia to initiate a reliable and transparent investigation of this criminal act that occurred on Russian territory against a Russian citizen using an agent of the Novichok group developed by Russia, ”reads the response of the Permanent Mission of France to the OPCW to a note verbale from the Russian Federation.
Earlier, on October 5, the United States and 44 other countries through the OPCW sent Russia a list of questions about the incident with Navalny and said they were waiting for an answer within 10 days. Moscow delivered its responses two days later and at the same time prepared a counter-note to the OPCW in response to a letter from a number of countries on the blogger’s case.
Navalny was hospitalized in Omsk on August 20, 2020 after he fell ill on a plane en route from Tomsk. According to the results of the examinations, the Omsk doctors called the main diagnosis a metabolic disorder, which caused a sharp change in blood sugar. What caused it remains unclear, but no poisons were found in Navalny’s blood and urine, according to Omsk doctors.
On August 22, 2020, he was flown to Germany. After that, the FRG government, referring to military doctors, stated that Navalny was allegedly poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group of toxic warfare agents. Later, the Cabinet of Ministers of Germany added that the conclusions of German experts were confirmed by the laboratories of Sweden and France, in parallel, the OPCW, at the request of Berlin, is conducting its own research.
The Kremlin said that Berlin did not inform Moscow about its findings, and the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Russia is waiting for a response from Germany to an official request on this situation: in a month, the Russian Federation sent Germany three requests for legal assistance on the situation with Navalny, responses to them have been received were not. On the day of Navalny’s hospitalization, the police and the prosecutor’s office began to conduct their checks.
On August 18, 2021, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the incident with Navalny was a planned provocation aimed at discrediting Russia: the case was promoted by the West to contain the country and new attacks on it. The ministry noted that Germany did not provide any verifiable evidence of its accusations against Russia, and the OPCW “shook up” Moscow’s request for assistance, preventing the initiation of a case.
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