On March 11, the State Duma adopted an appeal to the UN and the OSCE PA demanding an investigation into the activities of biolaboratories in Ukraine that worked in the interests of the United States of America. This was announced at a meeting of the CSTO PA Standing Committee on Defense and Security by the Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
Andrey Kartapolov says that in the course of a special operation they have received the data proving the creation of more than 30 military biological laboratories by the Americans that are aimed at testing the influence of causative agents of such lethal diseases as plague, anthrax and cholera on people.
According to Andrey Kartapolov, Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland confirmed that dozens of biological laboratories are working in the interests of the United States. That is why February 24th an emergency shutdown of biological programs began.
"The work was conducted in three main directions - monitoring of biological situation in supposed areas of deployment of military contingents of NATO bloc. The second - collection and export to the territory of the USA of dangerous microorganisms strains, and the third - work on study of agents, i.e. components of bioweapons. Everyone understands that bioweapons are one of the most unpredictable and dangerous weapons by their consequences," said Andrey Kartapolov.
For its part, the UN said a week ago that it had no evidence that Ukraine has a biological weapons program, while Washington and its allies accused Russia of spreading unproven claims as a possible prelude to conducting its own biological or chemical attacks.
This was reported by Reuters.
Russia convened a meeting of the 15-member UN Security Council to state through its envoy, Vasily Nebenzi, without giving evidence that Ukraine ran biological weapons laboratories with the support of the U.S. Defense Department.
Member states called the statement "lies" and "complete nonsense" and used the session to accuse Russia of deliberately targeting and killing hundreds of Ukrainian civilians.
Izumi Nakamitsu, the UN High Representative for Disarmament, told Rada that the UN is "not aware" of any biological weapons program in Ukraine, which has joined the international ban on such weapons, as have Russia and the United States along with 180 other countries.
Under the 2005 agreement, the Pentagon helped several Ukrainian health laboratories improve the security of dangerous pathogens and the technology used for research. These efforts have been supported by other countries and the World Health Organization.
The WHO told Reuters on Thursday that it has recommended that Ukraine destroy high-risk pathogens contained in its health labs to prevent "any potential diversions" that could spread diseases to the public.
