{"id":76219,"date":"2018-04-05T04:46:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T11:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=76219"},"modified":"2018-04-05T04:46:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T11:46:04","slug":"britain-behaving-like-mafia-state-in-skripal-case-osce-ex-vp-willy-wimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/04\/05\/britain-behaving-like-mafia-state-in-skripal-case-osce-ex-vp-willy-wimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain behaving like \u2018mafia state\u2019 in Skripal case \u2013 OSCE ex-VP Willy Wimmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The UK is exploiting European solidarity and behaving like a \u2018mafia state\u2019 by pushing forward warmongering accusations and excluding Russia from the Skripal poisoning probe, the former vice-president of OSCE assembly told RT.<\/div>\n
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Britain\u2019s behavior in the Skripal poisoning scandal is\u00a0a major danger to international peace,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0believes Willy Wimmer, who held the vp position with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) assembly from 1994 to 2000, and who had previously served as state secretary to Germany\u2019s defense minister.<\/p>\n

I think we would call this state a mafia state because it is against all European and international rules and regulations how the British government has behaved in a criminal case with regard to another country,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Wimmer told RT.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The UK has a history of pressing forward warmongering rhetoric, Wimmer said, recalling Britain\u2019s decision to go to war in Iraq.\u00a0We, as Europeans, have an experience with the British. We only have to look back to Tony Blair. They lie from one war into the next one.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The long awaited Chilcot report, published in 2016, offered a damning critique of Blair, stating that he deliberately exaggerated the threat posed by the Iraqi regime and had relied on\u00a0flawed\u201d<\/em>\u00a0intelligence.<\/p>\n

And that is why I think as long as the British don\u2019t behave in a proper, legal, international way, I think we all should believe that this is another British lie, at least to go for war against Russia,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Wimmer added.<\/p>\n

The former OSCE assembly vice-president said the EU\u2019s position of standing in solidarity with the UK was standard allied behavior but warned the bloc might think twice before doing so again in the future.<\/p>\n

If a country asks for solidarity and for support, it is given by the others because otherwise you can\u2019t run certain organizations like EU or NATO. What the British are doing \u2013 the government of Theresa May is exploiting this will of solidarity, which is a basic foundation of the European Union and NATO.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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15 years after #<\/span>IraqWar<\/span><\/a>, same old MPs jump on chemical weapons claims in Skripal poisoning –
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15 years after Iraq War, same old MPs jump on chemical weapons claims in Skripal poisoning \u2014 RT UK…<\/h2>\n

Many of the MPs who rushed to judgment over the Iraq War are now asserting Russia\u2019s \u2018culpability\u2019 for the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal. Fifteen years after the war began, are the same politic…<\/p>\n

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