Expressing solidarity with the United Kingdom after the nerve agent attack in Salisbury.

reaffirms the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom;

expresses its solidarity with the people of Salisbury and the United Kingdom;

reiterates its commitment to collective defense and security through NATO;

wishes for the full recovery of Sergei Skripal, his daughter, and the British police official seriously injured in the attack;

condemns the indiscriminate and reckless assault by the Government of the Russian Federation on United Kingdom sovereignty, and notes that any use of a nerve agent by a state party is a clear contravention of the Chemical Weapons Convention and a violation of international law;

calls on the Government of the Russian Federation to fully and completely answer questions related to the chemical attack and also provide full and comprehensive disclosure of its Novichok program to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW); and

urges the President of the United States to personally condemn the attack in clear, unambiguous terms and to take proportionate, measured, and defensive retaliatory actions against the Government of the Russian Federation in coordination with United States allies in Europe.