梅就神經毒劑襲擊事件向俄羅斯發出最後通牒

Theresa May, the British prime minister, has accused Russia of being responsible for the “indiscriminate and reckless” nerve agent attack in the English cathedral city of Salisbury that left a Russian double agent and his daughter critically ill.

英國首相特里薩?梅(Theresa May)指責俄羅斯要爲發生在英格蘭大教堂城索爾茲伯裏(Salisbury)的“不加選擇和魯莽的”神經毒劑襲擊負責。這起襲擊導致一名俄羅斯雙面間諜和他的女兒病危。

In a dramatic House of Commons statement in which she threatened robust reprisals against the Kremlin, Mrs May said the former spy, Sergei Skripal, was attacked using a military-grade nerve agent from a family of chemical weapons called Novichok, which were developed in Russia.

在英國下院(House of Commons)發表的一份措辭激烈的聲明中，梅揚言要對克里姆林宮實施強有力的報復。她說，前俄羅斯間諜謝爾蓋?斯克裏帕爾(Sergei Skripal)遭到一種軍用級神經毒劑的襲擊。這種毒劑來自一個名爲“諾維喬克”(Novichok)的化學武器家族，這些化學武器是在俄羅斯研發出來的。

“The government has concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against Sergei and Yulia Skripal,” Mrs May said, citing more than a week’s worth of investigations by police at the crime scene and biological experts at the British military’s Porton Down chemical weapons research centre.

梅表示，“政府得出結論認爲，很有可能是，俄羅斯要爲這一針對謝爾蓋?斯克裏帕爾和尤利婭?斯克裏帕爾(Yulia Skripal)的行爲負責。”她引用了警方對犯罪現場長達一個多星期的調查和英國軍方波頓道恩(Porton Down)化武研究中心的生物專家的說法作爲論據。

Mrs May said she had given Russia until the end of the day on Tuesday to explain what had happened, warning Britain could announce “much more extensive” sanctions against President Vladimir Putin’s government than currently exist.

梅表示，她已要求俄在週二這天結束前對上述事件作出解釋，並警告稱英國可能會宣佈對俄總統弗拉基米爾?普京(Vladimir Putin)的政府實施比現有制裁“廣泛得多”的制裁。

“Should there be no credible response, we will conclude that this action amounts to an unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the United Kingdom,” she told a packed chamber.

“如果未得到可信的回覆，我們會得出如下結論：這一行動相當於俄羅斯這個國家對聯合王國非法使用武力，”她在座無虛席的下院表示。

Moscow has denied any involvement in the attack. Russia’s foreign ministry dismissed Mrs May’s intervention as a “circus show in the British parliament”.

莫斯科方面否認與此次襲擊有任何關聯。俄外交部對梅的介入未予理睬，稱此舉是一場“在英國議會進行的馬戲表演”。

“The conclusion is obvious: another information and political campaign based on provocation,” said Maria Zakharova, a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman.

俄外交部女發言人瑪麗亞?扎哈羅娃(Maria Zakharova)表示：“結論很明顯，這是建立在挑釁基礎上的又一場情報和政治戰。”