MOSCOW. March 7 (Interfax) - The comments made by British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson about Russia's possible involvement in the poisoning of former military intelligence colonel Sergei Skripal are baseless, the Russian Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday.
"This is some ignorance, simply impossible. (...) Such statements by a foreign minister are simply some ignorance, there is due process, investigation, respect for the law," Zakharova said on the Ekho Moskvy radio station when asked to comment on Johnson's remarks.
She said she was bewildered that "the man, who works in foreign policy and has nothing to do with law enforcement, was making such claims."
"Based on what? First of all, there should be some elementary investigation," Zakharova said.
As far as Moscow is concerned, the information, as was in the case of the businessmen Boris Berezovsky and Alexander Perepilichny, "will still be made public," the spokeswoman said.
"We presume that law enforcement and security agencies first will get at least some real evidence and then share it," Zakharova said.
Johnson tied this situation to the FIFA world cup, she said. "Football is now being tied to everything: Ukraine, let's not go to Russia for the FIFA world cup; Syria, let's not go; doping, not going. And now this," Zakharova said. "This is simply ignorance," she said.