Donald Trump on September 4, 2020 at the White House.
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Donald Trump has carefully avoided criticizing Vladimir Putin.
The American president declared on Friday that he had not seen proof of the poisoning of Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny, adding, however, that he had no reason to doubt Berlin, which claims to have "unequivocal evidence".
Asked about suspected poisoning of Alexey Navalny, Pres.
Trump says, "I don't know exactly what happened, I think it's tragic."
Trump then turned to criticism of China, which he says "you should be talking about much more so than Russia ... You never ask about China."
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“We don't know exactly what happened.
We have not yet seen any evidence ”on the origin of this poisoning, declared the American president, while promising that the United States will examine in a very serious way this file.
He then digressed on China, criticizing journalists for wanting to "only talk about Russia".
Moscow denounces the accusations
Moscow, for its part, expressing its growing "skepticism" about poisoning by a nerve agent.
Russia is demanding that Berlin send it its analyzes.
“Will Madam (Chancellor Angela) Merkel, who has been accusing us for two days (…), will give the order for a response” to be sent ?, asked Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a press conference.
During the day, France and Germany again demanded explanations from Russia, demanding that those responsible be "identified and brought to justice".
NATO, for its part, urged Moscow, the day after threats of sanctions from the EU, to reveal everything about its Novichok program, the type of incriminated chemical that was developed by the Soviets in the 1970s.
"Unambiguous evidence"
The German government announced this week that it had "unequivocal evidence" that the Russian opponent, hospitalized in Berlin, had been poisoned with a Novichok-type agent.
The Novichok had already been used against the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in 2018 in England.
According to British authorities, the GRU, Russian military intelligence, was the main suspect.
This case had already led to sanctions against Russia, which had denied any involvement.
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