{"id":32329,"date":"2018-03-14T07:58:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T12:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32329"},"modified":"2018-03-14T07:59:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T12:59:23","slug":"britain-to-expel-russian-diplomats-calls-un-session-after-deadline-expires-without-moscow-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32329","title":{"rendered":"Britain To Expel Russian Diplomats, Calls UN Session After Deadline Expires Without Moscow Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-03-14\/britain-expel-russian-diplomats-after-midnight-deadline-expires-without-moscow#comment-11329216\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Britain To Expel Russian Diplomats, Calls UN Session After Deadline Expires Without Moscow Response<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The UK was braced for a showdown with Russia on Wednesday after a midnight deadline set by Prime Minister Theresa May expired without an explanation from Moscow about how a Soviet-era nerve toxin was used to strike down a former Russian double agent.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, which denied any involvement in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter with Novichok, a nerve agent developed by the Soviet military, said it was not responding to May\u2019s ultimatum until it received samples of the nerve agent, in effect challenging Britain to show what sanctions it would impose against Russian interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoscow had nothing to do with what happened in Britain. It will not accept any totally unfounded accusations directed against it and will also not accept the language of ultimatums,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-britain-russia\/britain-and-russia-brace-for-showdown-over-nerve-attack-on-ex-spy-idUSKCN1GQ03R\">according to Reuters<\/a>. He added, however, that Russia remained open to cooperating with Britain in investigating the poisoning, blaming the British authorities for refusing to share information.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Interfax news agency reported the Russian embassy in London planned to ask for consular access to Yulia Skripal, Sergei\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s response to the expiry of the deadline and lack of explanation from Moscow was expected to be announced by May in parliament later, after May convened a meeting of the National Security Council at her Downing Street office in the morning. Furthermore, <strong>Bloomberg reported that the U.K. has called for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to update Council members on the investigation into the nerve agent attack in Salisbury, the U.K. Foreign Office said in a tweet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain To Expel Russian Diplomats, Calls UN Session After Deadline Expires Without Moscow Response The UK was braced for a showdown with Russia on Wednesday after a midnight deadline set by Prime Minister Theresa May expired without an explanation from Moscow about how a Soviet-era nerve toxin was used to strike down a former Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[93,694,822,826,4318],"class_list":["post-32329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-britain","tag-russia","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32330,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32329\/revisions\/32330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}