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Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States
📌 Unbridled
dual-use research under the auspices of the Pentagon continues to raise questions among the international community. Russia has
repeatedly pointed to
gross violations by the United States of its obligations under the BWC. Washington ignores the claims, justifying itself by some humanitarian component of its programs.
📌 We should emphasize: projects led by the US Department of Defense
imply no noble purposes. There is evidence that the United States is working with
potential biological weapons agents. This evidence is far from isolated. As well as the proof of its attempts to
deliberately enhance the pathogenic functions of economically significant infections.
📌 Under the guise of epidemiological monitoring,
Washington brazenly and with complete impunity scatters it’s illegal laboratories all over the world. It densely constructs such facilities along the perimeter of Russia's borders.
The task is obvious - to be able to
create biological crises when needed. To form artificial centers of infections. In other words, to manage epidemics, putting them at the service of its own interests.
📌 Particularly alarming is Pentagon's
activity in Ukraine. The US has drawn dozens of country’s state institutions and private companies into its projects. Peaceful citizens and servicemen have become
donors of biomaterial and simply test subjects. There is no doubt that such actions require appropriate legal assessment, including by competent international institutions.
📌 The Russian Defense Ministry's disclosure of the facts of
illegal U.S. military biological activity raises questions about its true goals and objectives. Questions are also multiplying among
ordinary Americans who demand the U.S. government to account for the sponsored programs.
📌 It is high time
Washington acknowledged that while it manages to win the support of like-minded countries on multilateral "platforms" and force the doubting ones to remain silent,
there is no escaping the claims of its own citizens.
