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Tuesday, March 13, 2018
May and Putin: What is their next move?
May and Putin: What is their next move?
We don't know what Theresa May will do when her ultimatum to Russia runs out but she will have to live up to her tough rhetoric.
Image:Prime Minister Theresa May with Russian President Vladimir Putin. File pic
By Diana Magnay, Moscow Correspondent
Theresa May is clearly not messing around.
She wants a response from the Russian state to the administration of the nerve agent Novichok by end of play on Tuesday. If
she doesn't get it or thinks it's not good enough, she will conclude
that "this action amounts to an unlawful use of force by the Russian
State against the United Kingdom". This is very serious language.
It would mean that the UK held Russia in breach of Article 2(4) of the
UN Charter prohibiting the use of force. It has a warlike air to it.
Deadline for Russia - PM's full statement
There has been an element of facetiousness about Russia's offers of cooperation to date. Why
should Britain ask for the assistance of a state it suspects of a
horrendous and brazen attack on British soil which has risked the lives
not just of Sergei and Yulia Skripal but of British citizens too? But
full and complete disclosure of Russia's Novichok programme within
what's now less than 24 hours might be wishful thinking. And then what
will Theresa May do? There is nothing to suggest a conciliatory tone from the Russian side. Certainly
not from the Foreign Ministry whose spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, has
called the Prime Minister's speech a "circus show". President Putin said earlier today that the British should "get to the bottom of this and then we'll talk". Well, the time for talking is now.
Image:Sergei Skripal and Yulia Skripal were poisoned with nerve agent in Salisbury
We don't know what Theresa May will do when it runs out but she has
delivered some tough rhetoric to the British people and she will have to
live up to it. There's not much talk in Russia yet about a Kremlin response to whatever it is that the British decide to do. If this was a Kremlin-sanctioned act, then why now - days before a national election, less than 100 days until the World Cup? What does Russia stand to gain beyond bolstering the electorate's view that the West is out to get them?
And if it wasn't, and this horrific poison which the Russian
state is known to be capable of producing somehow fell into the hands of
those operating without state sanction, then how will Russia ever
persuade the UK as much? Let us hope wise heads prevail on both sides because there are difficult times ahead.
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