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Reuters: Russia calls UN Security Council meeting on Salisbury attack

Published April 4, 2018 at 7:49 pm

Police officers stand on duty near bench covered in a protective tent at The Maltings shopping centre in Salisbury, southern England, on March 14, 2018, where a man and woman were found critically ill on March 4, after being apparently poisoned with what was later identified as a nerve agent sparking a major incident.

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UNITED NATIONS – Russia has requested the United Nations Security Council meet on April 5 to discuss British accusations that Moscow used a nerve agent to attack a former Russian spy in England last month, Russian UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said on April 4.