Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov dismissed the US accusations of alleged Russian violations of chemical and biological conventions. From his point of view, such nervous remarks made by the White House demonstrated the US concern over the disclosure of its own military biological program near the Russian borders.
“We call on the United States to immediately terminate the illegal work in the military biological sphere, including in the post-Soviet nations and stop blocking the efforts of the international community to boost the Biological Weapons Convention regime,” Antonov said according to Sputnik News International
“Moreover, it is time for Washington to speed up the timing of the destruction of the national stockpiles of chemical weapons. We recall that the United States is still the only party to the Chemical Weapons Convention that has not fulfilled its international obligations yet,” the ambassador added.
MOSCOW, March 10 – RIA Novosti. Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov rejected the accusations of representatives of the US administration against the Russian Federation about Moscow’s alleged violation of chemical and biological conventions.
Earlier, the US State Department said that Washington does not have chemical or biological laboratories in Ukraine. The State Department, in turn, accused the Russian side of having “active military-chemical and military-biological programs.” “Such nervous statements by the American authorities testify to the White House’s serious concern about the disclosure of the truth about the ongoing work on the military biological program near the borders of the Russian Federation with US funding,” Antonov said.
The Russian Ambassador to the United States also called on the United States to immediately curtail illegal work in the field of military biology in the post-Soviet space and reminded that it is time for Washington to speed up the destruction of national chemical weapons stockpiles. In the United States they said that they do not have biological laboratories in Ukraine The Russian Ministry of Defense earlier held a presentation from which it follows that the United States spent more than $200 million on the operation of biological laboratories in Ukraine, which participated in the American military biological program.
The Russian Federation, in connection with the confirmed facts of US military biological activities in Ukraine, does not exclude the launch of a consultation mechanism under the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons (BTWC), Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
Commenting on information about US-funded biological laboratories in Ukraine, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lizqian urged the US to clarify its biological militarization activities at home and abroad, RIA Novosti reports.