Russia will use chemical weapon on US: Haley warns UN

Expressing solidarity with the UK, US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has warned that if concrete measures were not initiated, "Russia will use chemical weapons here in New York or in cities of any country that sits on this Council".

Haley said the Donald Trump administration "stands in absolute solidarity with Great Britain" following a nerve agent attack against a Russian double agent and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury last week, the CNN reported.

In the strongest statement yet from the US administration on the affair, Haley said Washington shared the UK's assessment that the Russian state was behind the poisoning and demanded a firm international response, reports IANS.

"The US believes that Russia is responsible for the attack on two people in the UK using a militarygrade nerve agent," Haley said in her remarks at a UN Security Council emergency session on Wednesday, blasting the Russian government for flouting international law, the CNN report said. "If we don't take immediate concrete measures to address this now, Salisbury will not be the last place we see chemical weapons used," said Haley.

"They could be used here in New York or in cities of any country that sits on this council."

Russia, however, has dismissed the accusations as "fairy tales" and denied any involvement in the attack which landed the Skripals, along with a British police officer, in the hospital.