As recalled in the department, a request for assistance in the case of Alexei Navalny was sent to Fernando Arias, General Director of the OPCW's technical secretariat, on October 1.
Over the past two and a half months, "no intelligible answer has been received."
“The proposals of the Russian side on key modalities of the planned visit to the Russian Federation of representatives of the OPCW Technical Secretariat were also rejected,” the Foreign Ministry said.
They explained that it was planned to involve the OPCW in the procedural actions of the Russian authorities in order to clarify the main issues around the “poisoning”: “where, how and under what circumstances chemicals found outside the Russian Federation appeared in the blogger's biomaterials”.
In addition, the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia sent about ten requests, which were followed by "several unintelligible, in essence, the questions posed negative answers," the agency said in a message to RT.
“The organization was again“ held hostage ”by those who persistently seek to use it in their geopolitical interests.
As a result, we have less and less confidence in the OPCW, ”the ministry concluded.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also published the correspondence between the Permanent Representative of Russia and the Director General of the Organization on this issue.
At the end of November, the Russian side announced that Germany had violated the norms of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons when it refused to cooperate with Russia on the situation with Alexei Navalny.