Russia has come under a sustained barrage of almost universal condemnation as nations lined up at the UN security council in New York to decry its role in the Salisbury chemical weapons attacks.
A day after the prime minister, Theresa May, told the UK parliament that two members of the Russian military intelligence agency, GRU, had been found to have carried out the novichok nerve agent attack in March, which poisoned the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, international repercussions came swiftly and decisively. Led by the UK ambassador to the UN, Karen Pierce, a host of governments turned on Moscow.
Pierce accused Russia of “playing dice with the lives of the people of Salisbury”.
“This is a direct challenge to the rules-based international system,” she said, adding that Moscow worked “in a parallel universe whether the normal rules of international affairs are inverted”.
With a stoney-faced Russian ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, sitting just two seats away from her in the world chamber, Pierce went on to accuse Moscow of flouting international law in a “brazen and reckless manner”. She said: “The time for lies and recrimination has passed – it is now time for truth and accountability.”
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