Russian Federation Council buildingMOSCOW, Mar 22The senators will work in a joint commission with the State Duma on a parliamentary investigation of the situation with the deployment of American biological laboratories in Ukraine, Grigory Karasin, head of the international committee of the Federation Council, told RIA Novosti. activities of US laboratories in Ukraine. It reports support for the initiative to create a commission, as well as an appeal to the Federation Council with a proposal to create a commission. The appendix to the resolution lists the names of 14 deputies, including the chairman of the commission, Irina Yarovaya. «We will definitely join this commission. We discussed this issue,» Karasin said. «We need to sort out the details of this provocative undertaking with biolaboratories, study the documents,» he said. The Russian Ministry of Defense 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, which participated in the US military -biological program. 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), said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lizqian, commenting on information about US-funded biological laboratories in Ukraine, urged Washington to clarify its biological militarization activities at home and abroad. What has now been revealed in Ukraine is a small fraction of more than 300 US biological laboratories, which are scattered around the world, Russia will submit new documents about their work, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov later said. biolaboratories in Ukraine
