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Members of the emergency services work near the bench where former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found poisoned.
Moscow has acted in full accordance with international law during the inquiry into the poisoning of the Skripals, the German parliament's service said.
London's actions were seen as more questionable, though.
The German Bundestag's Research and Documentation Services have
"found no clear violations of cooperation obligations under the [Chemical Weapons Convention] CWC [committed] by Russia," a
report issued by the parliament's agency following a legal review of the actions of various actors during the investigation the former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia.
During an emergency meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of the Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Russia expressed its readiness to investigate the incident together with the British authorities, "thus expressing its readiness for cooperation [required by the international norms], at least nominally," the report says, adding that
it was the UK that rejected this offer. It also notes that
"Russia complained that it had not been granted access to the results of the British investigation."
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