US EditionRubio says US does not dispute Navalny poisoning assessment by Europeans
Rubio called the European report blaming Russia for Navalny’s poisoning troubling but said the U.S. has no reason to dispute findings of the rare toxin epibatidine.
- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington is 'not disputing' the five-country report but did not join because it was a European-led initiative.
- Released on Feb 14, the five-nation statement from Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden said laboratory analyses found epibatidine on Navalny's samples and named Russia the prime suspect.
- Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaya, said on Feb 14 it was now 'science proven' that he had been murdered, while France's Jean-Noel Barrot paid tribute.
- At the Munich Security Conference, Britain's Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said coordinated action, including increasing sanctions, is being considered, while Russia dismissed the allegations as 'a Western propaganda hoax'.
- In broader context, experts on toxins noted the substance can also be produced synthetically instead of from the Ecuadoran poison dart frog.
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The head of US diplomacy, Marco Rubio, said on Sunday that he had "no reason" to question the conclusion of five European countries that Russian opponent Alexey Navalny was poisoned in his Russian prison.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visits Slovakia and Hungary after the Munich Security Conference. In Bratislava he stands behind the findings of European states on the murder of Navalny.
The U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said this Sunday that his country had nothing to do with the accusation made by five European countries, including Germany, France and the United Kingdom, which points to the Russian government as responsible for the murder two years ago of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalni with a neurotoxin.The joint report, which had the participation of Sweden and the Netherlands, denounces that Navalni's sa…
U.S. does not dispute European assessment that Navalny was poisoned, says Rubio
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday called a report by European allies blaming Russia for killing late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny using toxin from poison dart frogs 'troubling,' but said the United States does not dispute it.
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