The representative of the US Permanent Mission to the UN Cherit Norman Chalet raised the topic of what happened to Alexei Navalny at a meeting of the UN Security Council on the elimination of Syrian chemical weapons. TASS reports.
The American diplomat said that the United States is deeply concerned about Germany's findings that Navalny was poisoned by the Novichok group. She called on Russia for full transparency and punishment of all those responsible for this incident. Chalet also stressed the need for Russia to cooperate with the international community in the investigation of the Navalny case.
Earlier, the US Permanent Representative to the UN Kay Bailey Hutchison said that the Russian authorities need to investigate what happened to Alexei Navalny if they want the country to continue to be taken seriously. The diplomat also called on Western countries to put pressure on Russia to stop “destabilizing actions.”
On September 2, the German government announced that military toxicologists had found traces of a substance from the Novichok group in Navalny's body and called on the Russian government to respond to this information.
Navalny became ill on August 20 during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow. In the first two days, doctors from the Omsk hospital helped him, after which Navalny was transported to Germany.
