MOSCOW, Mar 10 countries to think about the true reasons for finding American research facilities in them, the head of the radiation chemical and biological protection forces (RCBZ), Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, told reporters.
«The publication by the Russian Federation of the facts of US military biological activity outside the national territory makes an increasing number of countries think about the true reasons for the presence of American research facilities on their territory,» Kirillov said.
As an example, he cited the Filipino deputies of the Makabayan opposition bloc, who at the end of December last year appealed to the country's Congress with a demand to investigate the activities of the Pentagon in the Regional Laboratory for Diagnostics of Animal Diseases in the city of Tarlac.
““The parliamentarians’ appeal indicates that the US Department of Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DITRA) has overt and covert military goals in the Philippines, which may not coincide with the interests of Manila. In their appeal, parliamentarians demand that the Department of Justice begin to study the work of the US military, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health, as well as the national defense department,» the general said.
In addition, the deputies called on government agencies to report on the work done in response to the questions of the Filipinos, why the US civil and agricultural cooperation is carried out not by the US Department of Agriculture, but by DITRA (the US Department of Defense Threat Reduction Agency), which is involved in dual-use work Worldwide.
Kirillov added that earlier Indonesia had declared the inexpediency of having the American military biolaboratory NAMRU-2 on its territory.
«The authorities of this country demanded to completely stop its activities back in 2010, after which the US Department of Defense was forced to transfer all unfinished projects to the territory of Cambodia,» the general recalled.