🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov's answer to a media question
❓: Dear Ambassador, how could you comment on the accusations of the US administration representatives against #Russia about its alleged violation of #CWC and #BTWC?
💬 Anatoly #Antonov: Such nervous statements by the US authorities indicate the serious concern of the The White House about the revelation of the truth about the ongoing work on the military biological program near the borders of the Russian Federation funded by the #USA.
🔹 The US administration justifies illegal and dangerous activities with standard tactics by accusing Russia of all sins. It uses groundless and tired old arguments. As we say in Russia: "a guilty conscience needs no accuser".
🔹 We call on the United States to immediately wrap up illegal work in the field of military biology, including on the territory of the post-Soviet space. As well as to stop blocking the efforts of the international community to strengthen the BTWC regime and not to prevent the resumption of work on a legally binding Protocol to the Convention with an effective verification mechanism.
🔹 Moreover, it is time for #Washington to accelerate the destruction of national chemical weapons stockpiles. I would like to remind that the United States is still the only state party to CWC, which has not yet fulfilled its international obligations.
❓: Dear Ambassador, how could you comment on the accusations of the US administration representatives against #Russia about its alleged violation of #CWC and #BTWC?
💬 Anatoly #Antonov: Such nervous statements by the US authorities indicate the serious concern of the The White House about the revelation of the truth about the ongoing work on the military biological program near the borders of the Russian Federation funded by the #USA.
🔹 The US administration justifies illegal and dangerous activities with standard tactics by accusing Russia of all sins. It uses groundless and tired old arguments. As we say in Russia: "a guilty conscience needs no accuser".
🔹 We call on the United States to immediately wrap up illegal work in the field of military biology, including on the territory of the post-Soviet space. As well as to stop blocking the efforts of the international community to strengthen the BTWC regime and not to prevent the resumption of work on a legally binding Protocol to the Convention with an effective verification mechanism.
🔹 Moreover, it is time for #Washington to accelerate the destruction of national chemical weapons stockpiles. I would like to remind that the United States is still the only state party to CWC, which has not yet fulfilled its international obligations.
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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Ответ Посла А.И.Антонова на вопрос СМИ
❓: Уважаемый Анатолий Иванович, как Вы могли бы прокомментировать обвинения представителей администрации в адрес России о якобы нарушении нашей страной хим- и биоконвенций?
💬А.И.#Антонов: Подобные нервозные высказывания…
❓: Уважаемый Анатолий Иванович, как Вы могли бы прокомментировать обвинения представителей администрации в адрес России о якобы нарушении нашей страной хим- и биоконвенций?
💬А.И.#Антонов: Подобные нервозные высказывания…
🎙生物兵器及び毒素兵器禁止条約第5条に基づく同条約締約国協議におけるロシア連邦代表団K.V.ヴォロンツォフ代表のスピーチ
💬 本協議において米国とウクライナが示した方針は、『純粋に平和目的で』生物兵器とは『何の関係もない』と称して国防総省の軍事バイオロジー研究を（ロシア国境至近地域を含む）国外で制限なく行うことを目指したものであると考える。
❗️ ウクライナと米国による生物兵器禁止条約の違反を調査するために、同条約の枠組みにおいて（条約第6条の規定を含む）あらゆる手段を発動することが求められる。
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🎙 Statement by K.V.Vorontsov, Head of the Delegation of the Russian Federation at the Consultative Meeting of States Parties to the BTWC on Article V of the #BTWC
💬 We regard the policy pursued by the United States and Ukraine during the Consultative meeting as being aimed at ensuring the continued unhindered implementation by the Pentagon of military and biological research outside the national territory (including in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders) under the guise of allegedly "purely peaceful" and "nothing to do with bioweapons" activities.
❗️ All instruments available under the Convention, including Article VI of the BTWC, should be involved to investigate Ukraine’s and the U.S.’ violations of the Convention.
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💬 本協議において米国とウクライナが示した方針は、『純粋に平和目的で』生物兵器とは『何の関係もない』と称して国防総省の軍事バイオロジー研究を（ロシア国境至近地域を含む）国外で制限なく行うことを目指したものであると考える。
❗️ ウクライナと米国による生物兵器禁止条約の違反を調査するために、同条約の枠組みにおいて（条約第6条の規定を含む）あらゆる手段を発動することが求められる。
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🎙 Statement by K.V.Vorontsov, Head of the Delegation of the Russian Federation at the Consultative Meeting of States Parties to the BTWC on Article V of the #BTWC
💬 We regard the policy pursued by the United States and Ukraine during the Consultative meeting as being aimed at ensuring the continued unhindered implementation by the Pentagon of military and biological research outside the national territory (including in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders) under the guise of allegedly "purely peaceful" and "nothing to do with bioweapons" activities.
❗️ All instruments available under the Convention, including Article VI of the BTWC, should be involved to investigate Ukraine’s and the U.S.’ violations of the Convention.
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📅 Member States of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (#BTWC) attended Russian-led conference in Geneva due to the violation of the articles I and IV of the abovementioned Convention by the U.S. and Ukraine.
🔸 The Russian Federation has raised over 20 questions related to the illegal activity of Kiev and Washington within the BTWC.
🔸 No delegation doubted the authenticity of the presented documents, including those related to the accumulation of pathogenic materials in Ukrainian laboratories counting the Mechnikov Anti-Plague Institute.
☢️ Ukrainian party has totally ignored the questions related to unreasonable volume of storaging dangerous biological agents at the establishment and the detected gross infringements of their storage conditions.
🔸 Neither Ukraine, nor the United States have presented convincing evidence to prove that the cooperation contributed to improving the sanitary-epidemiological situation after recent 15 years of its steady deterioration.
🔸 Only 43 delegations took the floor during the event, of which more than half (22 states) either supported the Russian position or took a neutral position.
🔸 As the event resulted in a "zero", non-binding report, we proposed initiatives to strengthen the BTWC.
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🔸 The Russian Federation has raised over 20 questions related to the illegal activity of Kiev and Washington within the BTWC.
🔸 No delegation doubted the authenticity of the presented documents, including those related to the accumulation of pathogenic materials in Ukrainian laboratories counting the Mechnikov Anti-Plague Institute.
☢️ Ukrainian party has totally ignored the questions related to unreasonable volume of storaging dangerous biological agents at the establishment and the detected gross infringements of their storage conditions.
🔸 Neither Ukraine, nor the United States have presented convincing evidence to prove that the cooperation contributed to improving the sanitary-epidemiological situation after recent 15 years of its steady deterioration.
🔸 Only 43 delegations took the floor during the event, of which more than half (22 states) either supported the Russian position or took a neutral position.
🔸 As the event resulted in a "zero", non-binding report, we proposed initiatives to strengthen the BTWC.
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🎙 Joint Statement on the Results of the Consultative meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons (#BTWC) under BTWC Article V
📍 New York, October 18, 2022
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💬 We have to conclude that the questions as to the military biological activities conducted by the United States in the context of the functioning of biological laboratories on the Ukrainian territory still remain unresolved. We have not received exhaustive explanations that could completely allay the doubts concerning the said activities and thus straighten out the situation that had prompted the Russian side to convene the Consultative meeting under BTWC Article V. This is regrettable.
☝️ The consultative meeting has confirmed the need to resume the negotiations on a legally binding protocol to the Convention, which should have a comprehensive nature and offer an effective verification mechanism.
📍 New York, October 18, 2022
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💬 We have to conclude that the questions as to the military biological activities conducted by the United States in the context of the functioning of biological laboratories on the Ukrainian territory still remain unresolved. We have not received exhaustive explanations that could completely allay the doubts concerning the said activities and thus straighten out the situation that had prompted the Russian side to convene the Consultative meeting under BTWC Article V. This is regrettable.
☝️ The consultative meeting has confirmed the need to resume the negotiations on a legally binding protocol to the Convention, which should have a comprehensive nature and offer an effective verification mechanism.