From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Russia requests UN meeting on ex-spy poisoning
Russia’s UN ambassador has called for an open meeting of the UN Security Council tomorrow on the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in Britain.
Vassily Nebenzia makes the request at the end of his speech to a council meeting on chemical weapons in Syria.
Nebenzia says Russia requested the council meeting because it shares the principle that the use of chemical weapons anywhere “is not acceptable and must be investigated and perpetrators punished, and that impunity is unacceptable.”
Kuwait’s UN Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi told reporters the meeting is scheduled at 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday.
Nebenzia’s request follows a meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons requested by Russia on the incident in the English city of Salisbury.
— AP
The Times of Israel Community.