Russian Security Council: US biological laboratories create dangers of dangerous viruses reaching terrorists

The Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Yuri Kokov

confirmed that the United States continues to open clandestine biological laboratories around the world, creating a risk of dangerous viruses in the hands of terrorists.

"Instead of localizing research in this area as much as possible, while ensuring the necessary level of public control, the United States continues to establish secret biological laboratories around the world," Kokov said in a dialogue with Russian newspaper Rosiskaya Gazeta.

He stressed that such an approach created a risk of dangerous viruses falling into the hands of terrorists and extremists, including neo-Nazis.

During the special military operation

• "evidence of military biological activities on Ukraine's territory was obtained under the auspices of the Pentagon."

• "The possession of modern weapons by terrorists gives them the opportunity to carry out large

• scale terrorist acts, which poses a direct threat to society and the state system."

He warned that 

"well-known events in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan clearly demonstrate the tragic consequences this can have".

Russian Ministry of Defense:

 We will provide evidence in Geneva of U.S. 

and Ukrainian violations of the Biological Weapons Prohibition Treaty

• The Russian Ministry of Defence convened a meeting of States members of

• the Geneva Treaty Banning Biological Weapons to discuss the issue of

• the United States and Ukraine '

• The head of the Protection Forces against Radiological, Chemical

• and Biological Weapons of the Russian Ministry of Defence

• Igor Kirilov, said the meeting would be held next week at Russia's initiative

• and would provide documented evidence of violations of

• articles I and IV of the Treaty by the United States and Ukraine.

He urged the organizations responsible for implementing the Treaty and the international community to pay attention to a number of biological threats

1. most notably those occurring in close proximity to Russia's borders
2. where there were more than 50 laboratories modernized
3. by the United States and under the supervision of the Pentagon.

According to China's Ministry of

Foreign Affairs, 336 biological laboratories were supervised by the United States Department of Defense in 30 countries worldwide.

At the same time, the laboratory's activities had been accompanied by a deterioration in the epidemiological situation, in addition to the emergence of non-stereotypical infectious diseases in a given area.

Since 2010, Russia has recorded an increase in the incidence of "brucellosis", "Crimean Congo fever", "West Nile fever" and "African swine fever".