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The British ambassador to Moscow will not attend a Russian Foreign Ministry briefing on the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain, an embassy spokesman says.

Amid a standoff between Moscow and London over the poisoning, the Foreign Ministry invited foreign ambassadors to attend a meeting with what it said were arms-control experts on March 21 to discuss British allegations that Moscow was responsible.

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