Spokeswoman:

No One Can Deliver Any 24-Hour Ultimatums to Russia

TEHRAN (defapress)- Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday that no one can deliver any 24-hour ultimatums to Moscow, commenting on British Prime Minister Theresa May’s statement in the House of Commons on March 12 demanding Russia provide by the end of Tuesday an account about Russia-manufactured nerve agents.

News ID: 69202

Date: 14 March 2018 - 17:00

"Bearing in mind what the President [of Russia Vladimir Putin] said [in his State-of-the-Nation Address], no one can appear in his or her country’s parliament to say ‘I give Russia 24 hours,’" Zakharova told the 60 Minutes program of the Rossiya-1 television channel.

According to Zakharova, May apparently has no actual facts concerning the poisoning of former Russian military intelligence Colonel Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

"No one knows anything, including Theresa May, who has no actual fact in her hands," Zakharova added.

Sergey Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter Julia on March 4 suffered from the effects of an unidentified nerve agent. They were found in an unconscious condition on a bench near The Maltings shopping center in Salisbury. Both are now in hospital in critical condition.

In 2004, Skripal was arrested by the federal security service FSB, charged, tried and convicted of high treason and stripped of all ranks and awards. In 2010 he was handed over to the United States under an arrangement to exchange persons arrested on spying charges. Later in the same year Skripal settled in Britain.