HAGUE: The world’s chemical arms watchdog on Thursday said it had confirmed Britain’s findings that a nerve agent used in an attack on a former spy and his daughter in England last month originally came from Russia.
Samples tested by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) “confirm the findings of the United Kingdom relating to the identity of the toxic chemical,” according to a summary of the Hague-based group’s report released in London.
It added that “the toxic chemical was of high purity”.
In a declassified summary of its findings, however, the OPCW did not make any assessment on who …read more
Source: Pakistan Today
