Russia announces to hold meeting on US activities in biological laboratories in Ukraine

A Russian official has said that Russia will be conducting a meeting on USA's biological laboratory activities in Ukraine. meeting will be conducted under  Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) to discuss America's "activities in military-biological laboratories in Ukraine," as per a report from Sputnik news. information was disclosed by Konstantin Vorontsov, who is Russian delegation's deputy he for United Nations First Committee on Disarmament and International Security. 

On Tuesday, Konstantin Vorontsov told members of UN First Committee that Russia has "not received exhaustive explanations that could completely allay any of doubts concerning se activities and thus straightened out situation that h prompted Russian side to convene a consultative meeting under BTWC Article 5." America's representative for UN's First Committee said that Moscow's allegations about American activities in Ukraine were "unfounded". Russian mission to United Nations believes that America is using biological labs in Ukraine to conduct experiments and has reportedly provided evidence to United Nations. 

US denies Russian claims

Sputnik report states that back in September, Russian Defense Ministry offered evidence about United States' military biological activities in Ukraine. US Department of State has responded to Russian allegations by stating, " Kremlin is intentionally spreing outright lies that United States and Ukraine are conducting chemical and biological weapons activities in Ukraine.  We have also seen PRC officials echo se conspiracy ories. This Russian disinformation is total nonsense and not first time Russia has invented such false claims against anor country.  Also, se claims have been debunked conclusively and repeatedly over many years," as per information available on State Department's website. 

  After   Biological Weapons Convention Article V Formal Consultative Meeting, called by Russia, ended in Geneva US issued a statement saying, "in presence of delegations from 89 countries, United States and Ukraine presented a thorough, in-depth series of presentations that strongly refuted Russia’s absurd and false claims of U.S. biological weapons development and bio-labs in Ukraine. Technical experts from US and Ukrainian delegations unambiguously explained ir cooperation and US assistance related to public health facilities, biosafety, biosecurity, and disease surveillance as part of broer U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction Program."