U.S. has not destroyed its stockpiles of chemical weapons, Ryabkov said

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov. File photoMOSCOW, Mar 22The United States has not yet destroyed its chemical weapons stockpiles, Washington is artificially delaying this process, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. «The United States, unlike Russia, has not yet destroyed its chemical weapons stockpiles. It was said that Europe does not have such weapons, but they remain in America, and the rate of their destruction is extremely low,» he said after a meeting with deputies of the United Russia faction. />Biden said that the United States does not have biological and chemical weapons in Europe «We have repeatedly stressed that we do not understand why the United States is so slowly, in an artificial tightening mode, despite the availability of all resources: technological, financial and other — any, are destroying of its chemical arsenal,» Ryabkov added. He stressed that Russia's entire arsenal of chemical weapons was completely destroyed under the strictest international control back in 2017. The Russian Defense Ministry earlier held a presentation, from which it follows that the United States spent more than $ 200 million on the work of biological laboratories in Ukraine that participated in the American military biological program and dealt, in particular, with plague and anthrax pathogens. On the territory of Ukraine, a network of more than 30 biological laboratories was formed that worked in the interests of the Pentagon, said Igor Kirillov, head of the RF Armed Forces. . Everything for the continuation of the US military biological program has already been removed from Ukraine after the start of the Russian special military operation, he said. In connection with the facts of US military biological activities in Ukraine, the Russian Federation does not exclude the launch of a consultation mechanism under the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons (BTWC) Ryabkov and the Chinese Ambassador discussed US biological activities in Ukraine