Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian Ambassador to the United Nations, dismissed the British police evidence and said London “needs this story for one purpose, to unleash disgusting anti-Russian hysteria” Brendan McDermid/ReutersThe British ambassador to the United Nations accused Russia of “playing dice with the lives of the people of Salisbury” and flouting the rules of an international order “which has kept all of us safe since 1945” in a statement to the security council today. Karen Pierce said authority had been given for two Russian agents to be charged with attempted murder over the nerve agent attack on the former Russian spy Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in MarchShe accused the Russian government of “operating in a parallel universe where the normal rules of international affairs are ignored”. The foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt talks to the deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Jonathan Allen, second from left, and the British ambassador Karen Pierce, second from right APShe called for further sanctions against Russia and for steps to strengthen the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to attribute…

Source: The Times September 06, 2018 16:07 UTC