moscow, august 13. /tass/. the united states’ intention to take sanctions against russia over the skirpals affair pose a threat to the integrity of the chemical weapons convention cwc and harm the authority of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, the russian foreign ministry said in a statement issued on monday. read also kremlin mum on possible tit-for-tat measures in response to recent us sanctions washington’s current actions harm the cwc integrity and the authority of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, with which russia cooperated most closely in the process of implementing the national program for the elimination of chemical weapons, the foreign ministry said. the united states has more than once demonstrated its contemptuous attitude to the system of international law and the wish to use the existing multilateral arms control mechanisms for advancing its own political agenda. hypocritical position the foreign ministry recalled that the united states tries to incriminate russia of an act of using chemical weapons in the so-called skripal case. nobody has been able to present any evidence of this yet. in defiance of our repeated requests the british side has refused to cooperate in investigating the march 4 incident in salisbury, the foreign ministry said. the us department of state in its notification to russia questions the full elimination of the russian chemical weapons arsenal. they prefer to ignore the fact that the russian program for the elimination of chemical weapons, completed last year, was implemented under strict international control in strict compliance with the cwc, the foreign ministry said. we regard the groundless charges of complicity in the salisbury incident, put forward against russia, as yet another attempt to create an impression our country takes an irresponsible attitude to compliance with international commitments, the statement runs. this approach looks particularly hypocritical in a situation where the united states is in no hurry to eliminate its own arsenal of chemical weapons and remains the sole cwc signatory that keeps considerable amounts of chemical warfare agents. read also russia firmly rejects new us sanctions, lavrov tells pompeo
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