MOSCOW. March 15 (Interfax) - The motives behind the United Kingdom's accusations that Russia could be involved in the poisoning of former Russian Main Intelligence Directorate officer Sergei Skripal are shady, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"I would not even guess what motives our UK colleagues had," Lavrov said at the 'Russia - Country of Opportunity' forum on Thursday.
"But I think that their motives were shady in any case," the minister said.
"If they had been guided by honest motives, they would have told us about them, would have answered the questions we keep asking, and would have launched the procedures envisaged by the convention on the prohibition of chemical weapons," he said.