OPCW Report on Skripaly published. All "superfluous" - in the secret part
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1. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland requested technical assistance from the Technical Secretariat of the OPCW (hereinafter referred to as the Secretariat) in accordance with paragraphs. 38 (e) of Article VIII of the Chemical Weapons Convention in relation to the 4 March 2018 incident in Salisbury involving a toxic chemical, allegedly a nerve agent, and poisoning and hospitalization of three people.
2. The team deployed in the UK 19 March for a preliminary investigation and from March 21 to March 23 for a full investigation.
3. The team received information about the medical conditions of the affected individuals: Mr. Sergey Skripal, Ms. Julia Skripal and Mr. Nicholas Bailey. This included data on the status of acetylcholinesterase after hospitalization, as well as information on the treatment regimen.
4. The team was able to take blood samples from three victims for subsequent analysis in the OPCW laboratory.
5. The team was able to randomly test environmental samples at the supply chain site at locations identified as possible residual contamination points. Samples were returned to the OPCW laboratory for further analysis.
6. The group requested and obtained a breakdown of the samples taken by the British authorities for delivery to the OPCW laboratory in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, and then an analysis of the OPCW laboratories. This was done for comparative purposes and to verify the analysis carried out by the United Kingdom.
7. The team was informed about the type of toxic chemical. And she was able to analyze the analytical results and chemical analysis of biomedical samples collected by British experts from the affected persons, as well as environmental samples collected on site. The results of the analysis of biomedical samples conducted by the OPCW demonstrate the poisoning of three hospitalized individuals with a toxic chemical.
9. The analysis of environmental samples from the OPCW laboratory demonstrates the presence of this toxic chemical in the samples.
10. The results of the analysis conducted by the OPCW confirm the findings of experts from the United Kingdom regarding the identity of the toxic chemical used in Salisbury and the severe poisoning of three people.
11. The team notes that the toxic chemical has high purity. Almost without impurities.
12. The name and structure of the identified toxic chemical is contained in its entirety in the secret part of the Secretariat’s report accessible to the States Parties.
Apparently, Russia, whose citizens Skripali are, is not included in the circle of those countries to which this secret part of the report is available.
But on the Twitter page of the Associated Press news agency there is an excerpt from the secret section, which states that the OPCW does not know about the country of origin of the substance used in Salisbury.
- www.globallookpress.com/
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