United Nations: No news on biological weapons program in Ukraine
The United Nations has expressed ignorance about the biological weapons program in Ukraine.
Washington has expressed concern that Russia is seeking to justify its use of biological or chemical weapons in Ukraine through baseless allegations.
Moscow has called for a UN Security Council meeting to discuss US biological weapons claims in Ukraine but has offered no evidence in this regard. There are biological weapons laboratories backed by the Pentagon. Both Kyiv and Washington have denied the allegations. The United Nations is not aware of any such biological weapons program in Ukraine.
The use of chemical weapons is a grave violation of international law & an affront to our shared humanity, @UN_Disarmament chief @INakamitsu said in Security Council meeting on Syria this week.
She stressed they must never be used again, anywhere. https://t.co/hNszwqBeSV pic.twitter.com/0NmCqwahdz
— United Nations (@UN) March 12, 2022
Under an agreement signed in 2005, the Pentagon supports a number of public health research laboratories in Ukraine. The US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas Greenfield, said Washington was “deeply concerned” that Russia had convened the meeting on “baseless allegations” to justify its use of biological and chemical weapons in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations, Barbara Woodward, called Moscow’s claim “baseless” and said Russia was now deeply entrenched, but added that the Security Council should not be involved.
