He added that Russia "fully and fully fulfilled its obligations" relating to international treaties prohibiting their use.
The diplomat confirmed "We have no military-related biological weapons programs"adding that "All our biological activities are entirely for peaceful purposes and nothing more".
Vorontsov’s remarks came on the sidelines of the five-year review of the Biological Weapons Convention, which is due to finish on Friday after three weeks of work. The treaty bans the development, production and stockpiling of this class of weapons of mass destruction.
However, the absence of a verification mechanism has been a major weakness and a point of contention for two decades.
Konstantin Vorontsov has also rightly faced the Russian allegations united state ANDUkraine.
And because he encroached on his neighbor, he was blamed Russia Washington has repeatedly been involved in the alleged development of biological weapons in laboratories in Ukraine.
And Moscow asked in October of United Nations Security Councilthe investigations into his allegations, strongly denied by both Washington and Kiev, were of no avail.
The allegations were repeated at the review conference table in Geneva and Russian Ambassador Gennady Gatilov assured reporters that Moscow has no plans to drop the issue.
Gatilov said: "We consider this a threat to our national security"accusing Washington of military involvement in setting up secret laboratories "Not only in Ukraine, but in many other countries… along the borders of the Russian Federation".
In response to a question about the evidence available to Russia, the ambassador said that Russian forces "Thousands of documents seized" Which, according to him, contain ample evidence of covert military activity in laboratories in Ukraine.
added: "We don’t just talk about that. We know the facts"expressing regret that the United States and Ukraine did not respond to Russia’s questions.
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This was denied by Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy head of the ministry’s Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Department Russian foreignerOn the possibility that Russia could use these weapons, he told a number of reporters: “There is absolutely no truth to it.”
He added that Russia is “completely and fully complying with its obligations” related to international treaties banning its use.
“We have no military programs related to biological weapons”, stressed the diplomat, adding that “all our activities in the biological field are entirely for peaceful purposes and nothing else”.
Vorontsov’s remarks came on the sidelines of the five-year review of the Biological Weapons Convention, which is due to finish on Friday after three weeks of work. The treaty bans the development, production and stockpiling of this class of weapons of mass destruction.
However, the absence of a verification mechanism has been a major weakness and a point of contention for two decades.
Konstantin Vorontsov has also rightly faced the Russian allegations united state ANDUkraine.
And because he encroached on his neighbor, he was blamed Russia Washington has repeatedly been involved in the alleged development of biological weapons in laboratories in Ukraine.
And Moscow asked in October of United Nations Security Councilthe investigations into his allegations, strongly denied by both Washington and Kiev, were of no avail.
The allegations were repeated at the review conference table in Geneva and Russian Ambassador Gennady Gatilov assured reporters that Moscow has no plans to drop the issue.
“We consider this a threat to our national security,” Gatilov said, accusing Washington of military involvement in setting up secret laboratories “not only in Ukraine, but in many other countries … along the borders of the Russian Federation.”
In response to a question about evidence available to Russia, the ambassador said Russian forces “seized thousands of documents” which he said contain much evidence of covert military activity in laboratories in Ukraine.
He added, “We’re not just talking about that. We know the facts,” expressing regret that the US and Ukraine failed to respond to Russia’s questions.
