Chemical Weapons Body Backs U.K. Over Nerve-Agent Attack
- Johnson says ‘no doubt’ that Russia behind chemical attack
- Russia rejects OPCW findings, demands access to evidence
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A nerve agent was used to poison a Russian former spy and his daughter, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said, as its inquiry backed the U.K. on the toxin’s identity.
Results of the OPCW’s analysis “confirm the findings of the United Kingdom relating to the identity of the toxic chemical that was used in Salisbury,” the United Nations organization said in a statement on Thursday. It said the poison was of “high purity” but declined to identify it publicly, adding that “the name and structure of the identified toxic chemical are contained in the full classified report” issued to member states.