The goal of the campaign around Russian political opposition figure Alexei Navalny is to create a pretext for additional sanctions against Russia, said Alexander Shulgin, Russia’s Permanent Envoy to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), at the 95th session of the organization’s Executive Council.
The OPCW on Tuesday asserted that a substance similar to nerve agent Novichok, but not included in the list of banned chemicals, had been found in Navalny’s body. The German government said the OPCW statement in the Navalny case confirmed that the Russian political opposition figure’s poisoning with a Novichok group substance.
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