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Reuters: Britain’s ambassador to skip Russian spy poisoning briefing in Moscow

Published March 21, 2018 at 1:11 pm

A protective forensics tent covers a bench in a park at The Maltings shopping centre in Salisbury, southern England on March 19, 2018, as investigations in connection with an apparent nerve agent attack in the city on March 4 continue. The European Union offered "unqualified solidarity" with Britain on March 19 over a nerve agent attack blamed on Russia, as international weapons experts visited to take a sample of the chemical for testing. Sergei Skripal, a former Russian officer who sold secrets to Britain and moved there in a 2010 spy swap, remains in critical condition along with his daughter, Yulia, after they were found unconscious on a park bench on March 4. / AFP PHOTO / Ben STANSALL

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Britain’s ambassador to Moscow will skip a Russian Foreign Ministry briefing on the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain, an embassy spokesman said on March 21.

The Foreign Ministry has invited foreign ambassadors to attend a meeting with arms control experts later on March 21 to discuss British allegations that Moscow was responsible for the poisoning in southern England, something Russia denies.