MOSCOW. March 14 (Interfax) - There has been no progress in investigating the poisoning of former Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) colonel Sergei Skripal together with the UK, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press briefing in Moscow on Wednesday after talks with his Turkish counterpart.
"There is regress; we have not seen any progress. We have yet to receive an official inquiry from London regarding the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter," Lavrov said.
Moscow has formally notified London it "will be ready to respond to the inquiry on the condition that it is based on [the UK's] obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention," he said.
The convention requires "that an official inquiry be filed with the authorities of the suspected country in such cases," Lavrov said.
"No such inquiry has been made. What is more, the UK's representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons asked our representative why we even referred to the prohibition of chemical weapons. He said the fact that the British foreign secretary summoned the Russian ambassador and told him everything was sufficient," Lavrov said.