“Under the chemical weapons convention, one state that suspects another state of having illegal chemical weapons can seek these inspections and Britain certainly has the right to do that, and they are aware that we would support them, should they go down that path,” Bishop told the ABC. “Russia is a party to the chemical weapons convention and under that chemical weapons convention, all chemical weapons should have been declared and it would appear that this nerve agent has not been declared,” she said. The main five nerve agents are tabun, which is the easiest to make, sarin, soman, GF and VX. So there are obligations on Russia to get rid of any chemical weapons and most certainly it should have declared what it was doing with this program. “There is no other explanation, no other plausible explanation, as to where this nerve agent came from.

Source: The Guardian March 18, 2018 00:56 UTC