British Foreign Office diplomats are urging David Cameron not to launch a substantial new economic anti-Russian sanctions this week, if the independent injury into the murder of Alexander Litvinenko finds Russia was responsible for his death.
British Foreign Office diplomats are urging David Cameron not to launch a substantial new economic anti-Russian sanctions this week, if the independent injury into the murder of Alexander Litvinenko finds Russia was responsible for his death.
"The prime minister is due to receive the report on Tuesday before its publication on Thursday, and senior diplomats have argued that the wider interests of Anglo-Russian relations, including a settlement to the four-year Syrian civil war, require a degree of restraint", reports The Guardian.
Newsweek says the report will be sent to Cameron on Tuesday before it is published on Thursday, and Foreign Office officials have asked him to exercise restraint in the likely event that Russian state security services are implicated in the killing.
The UK government conjecture is that Sir Robert Owen, a retired high court judge, will find Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi who are responsible for the murder of Litvinenko.
Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) working as a consultant to the U.K.’s MI6 intelligence agency. He died from radioactive polonium poisoning in November 2006, after he had tea at the Millennium Hotel. Former contacts from KGB Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi are alleged to have organized the murder, though both of them deny the affirmations.
