prepared to stand with you crane and stand up for the un charter. thank you very much. or i, we were listening there to view as ambassador to the united nation speaking ahead of the united nations security council meeting, saying, referring to what she termed as a litany of bombastic, lies saying that moscow is the party that has a well documented history of using chemical weapons, but if we go over now to kristen salumi, she's live for us at the united nations. all of this. as i said, kristin is coming kind of a head of russian efforts to convene the security council. that's right. and the russians called a last minute briefing of for, to day friday on what they say are us bio labs in

ukraine. they had another meeting on this very subject a week ago. and un briefer address the council and said that they had no weapons of no evidence of such a labs that the russians have suggested are being used to produce a chemical weapons in ukraine. the u. s. of course is denied this, that there are any such programs in ukraine that they're involved with. so this is an attempt to bring that up again. and it was an unexpected call by the russian ambassador yesterday saying they had, quote, new evidence to present to the council. so you're seeing the united states and its allies get out ahead of this and addressed the media in the public. before going into this meeting, again, trying to discredit what they're saying, this is a pattern we've been seeing here at the united nations over the last week or 2.

with these dueling narratives between the west and the nato, a line countries and russia, the west attempting to show increasingly that russia is isolated in this situation . i with their statements the back and forth, though with the 2 sides talking at each other, and we heard vaseline to benjie of the russian ambassador yesterday, actually talked about the information war. when he announced this meeting, he said, you know, he of course is accusing that the united states of spreading misinformation and mischaracterizing the war in ukraine. he and russia have denied that there are targeting civilians or attacking civilians. despite mounting evidence that civilians are overwhelmingly being hurt by this conflict. so he himself said in announcing this that there is an information war going on and, and in his words, he said,

who wins the information war is going to win the war on the battlefield. here and he was saying that response, just to questions and accusations being leveled at russia, he was basically dismissing them as a false information. so again, today we're going to see this back and forth between the west and russia. to be interesting to see china who's kind of been walking the line here, and i obviously has close relations with vladimir pu and how they react to these latest allegations in the council. and if russia indeed points to anything new. all right, kristen salumi there rushes president vladimir putin says he's ready to keep searching for solutions to the wall with as diplomatic efforts. continue the conflict grimes on on the ground. same basra, the wraps on the laces developments across you crime. within minutes of early

morning air raid sirens throughout the city, russian missiles had targets near levine international airport, shattering once again, the sense of relative safety. here in the west of ukraine. before the position was split, the air read boarding system worked ungrateful to the armed forces as they reacted some missiles which were launched from the black sea area, were intercept 4. missiles, hit an aircraft repair plant, as you already know. there have been some attacks in this part of the country. a training company operative last week, and a military posted in airfield, near lutes. but the friday morning, airport strike is the closest the war has come to the city of levine. so far as you see behind me, smoke is still rising from the area that was hit. we've been stopped from going any further any closer to the areas that we're head by the strikes, police have pushed us back twice. we've tried to go over the bridge, but we've been sent back to this area here so we can't get a clear view of what's happening, but the smoke that continues to below,

over the skies over the city certainly tells you that something definitely was hit . and it's still on fire. in the eastern city of car keys, a college building was shelled, killing one person entering 11 and trapping another in the rubble. the city is home to one of the largest markets in eastern europe, and it remains on fire, sparked by shelling on thursday. another shelling and crumbs tours killed to an insurance and the capital also attack the mayor of key visit the nursery in school . he says was targeted by russian rockets, killing one child and wounding 23. this is janice side of the cranium population. you have to act now. stop basil observing and stop doing business with russia. do it now? attacking mostly civilian targets is proof. ukrainian officials say that russia is choosing not to fight ukrainian troops instead hitting the country's most vulnerable. you don't want me enemies strike against the city of the river. is

another proof that it does not fight ukrainian troops. it fights population, children, women, refugee. so there is nothing sacred for them. in basra theology 0 love you no rush as far as that. a lot of in futon is told thousands of people in moscow that the war in ukraine has been a success. he took to the stage at a stadium where authorities have organized the consent to mark 8 years since russia imax crimea. ah, i am. western leaders regard moscow's 2014 take over of the and insular as illegal which in also praised russian troops and repeated the kremlin claim that they're fighting neo nazis in ukraine. deal of doom store crimean and sylvester paul residents have put a barrier to new nazis and extreme nationalists. because what is happening in other

territories is the confirmation of that people living. and don bass also did not to this coup against somebody punishing operations were started. they were shelled by guns and aircraft. this is what is called genocide crossover. now, to our correspondence in moscow, daughter jabbar, i don't see probably heard me there, referred to some of putin statements. he made that the rally. yeah. tell us how that's going down. well this was a rally that we were not expecting vladimir putin to its hence personally, we had heard, he might deliver a pre recorded message, but he did appear and it was quite surprised. now, he did make a very short speech at last that a few minutes. and this is at the venue is that lou sneaky stadium which was built for the world cup. it's one of the, it's the largest i sporting stadium in russia. if he has the capacity of about

80000 people. but according to sate tv, who is there? they have said that there is over 200000 people who attended many of them surrounding the stadium on the outside as well. and they said that this was a, certainly an important day. and let me put in, taking the occasion to actually show up in person to deliver the message and what his message was. basically one of unity and victory. and we might have seen all the letters ads on people's clothing or faces being drawn on the, the letters that is being used as a symbol a here it stands for is up a bady, which means victory and russian. and this is what they are claiming to be a happening in ukraine. the crowd was also changing, chanting, russia forward, very much and message of unity from the crowd. we also have to point out that a many of the people that have attended at we had heard from the rotors who had spoken to a few employees of a rosin f,

a which is the state own gas company. they said they were given that they often expected to attend. so there is certainly a certain level of expectation from the government employees to be part of this event, which is meant to show a very much a united russia. oh much, let's take you now to the un security council where that briefing is now in session over the war and ukraine lessons, innovation and ukraine, or both states parties to the biological weapons convention. mister president. the bonus school with weapons convention contains several measures to which concerned state parties can have recourse in order to address situations in which they have concerns or suspicions about the activities of their peers. hasn't article fine for the convention. it's states parties undertake to consult one another and

to corporate in solving any problems. such consultation in corporation can take place on a bilateral basis between the concerned state parties, or it can be undertaken through appropriate international procedures. one such international procedure that has been elaborated within the framework of the biological weapons convention is the convening of a consultative meeting. other possibilities for addressing concerns between states parties also exists under article 5 of the convention as wellness under article 6. as i mentioned last week, the b w. c needs to be operated, analyzed and institutionalized, to ensure it is properly equipped and resourced to face future challenges. the conventions upcoming 9th review conference presents the ideal opportunity for it

states, parties to comprehend simply strengthen the convention. the united nations office for disarmament affairs stands ready to support any procedures under the biological weapons convention that states parties may decide to use. mr. president, turning to the issue of the safety and security of ukraine's nuclear power facilities. the director general of the international atomic energy agency has reported that according to the ukranian authorities or safety systems at the dap read their nuclear power plant, remained fully functional as of yesterday, following the site's loss of connection to a 3rd external power line linking to the national electricity grid. although officials from ross chance states nuclear power company were present at the facilities in southern ukraine, ukrainian staff continue to operate the plant. the chernobyl power plant remains

connected to the national electricity grid, following reconnection on 4th of march. however, ukrainian operators and guards of not been able to rotate for 3 weeks now. the i am has reported that according to the ukrainian authorities, 8 of the countries 15 reactors remained operating. i understand that regarding nuclear safeguards, the i am still not receiving remote data transmission from its monitoring systems installed at chernobyl. but such data was being transferred to a year had quarters from the other nuclear power plants in ukraine. i take this opportunity to re trade the sector general support for efforts by the iea. yay! to establish a framework on the safety and security of ukraine's nuclear facilities and arch or parties to work towards this end with the president. i wish to also

highlight the terrible tall this conflict is having on civilians. the civilian casualties continue to rise. as of 16 march, the officer for the high commissioner for human rights heart recorded 2032 civilian casualties. including 780 killed, of whom, 58 were children. the actual number of casualties is believed to be much higher. most of these casualties are caused by the use of exposing weapons with a wide area impact. these include attacks using heavy artillery, multiple launch, rocket systems, ballistic and cruise missiles and air strikes. i also want to rate rate that attacks directed our civilians are prohibited by international

humanitarian law. we must find a diplomatic solution to this war. to put an end to the violence of sector general good terrorist set, and i quote, we need an immediate succession of hostilities and serious negotiations based on the principles of the un charter and international law. we need peace, peace for the people of ukraine. peace for the world. we need peace. now. i thank you very much for your attention. escort her essay, then i commit to add a healthy her at equally milan. yeah, i got images are not to be in philadelphia. they and i shall now give the floor to members of the council who wished to speak. i give the floor to the representative of the russian federation. along with my new britain, president festival allow me to express our

condolences to the person and the representative of ireland following the at a loss that they suffered. this is of say a loss to the irish mission and for all of us. so please accept our condolences president, colleagues, we've always already said that during russia's special military operation in ukraine, information was discovered regarding the implementation of the crane in authorities with the support and the direct supervision of the u. s. ministry of defense of dangerous projects. as part of the military and logical program, its activity was carried out in the territory of ukraine at the center of eastern europe. i'm in the western borders of russia, which created a real threat for the bias security of our country and the whole region. a week ago, on the request of the russian federation, there was the 1st security council meeting held on this topic. here we ask our

western colleagues, a series of questions, but they haven't yet responded to them. the representative, the u. s. wasn't able to explain how the statements of the american officials about how there is allegedly no u. s. controlled by laboratories on lee crane. how that tallies with the fact of the present of documentary proof of this kind of cooperation between kevin washington. i recall he, we're talking about a agreement signed in 2005 between the u. s. ministry of fence and the ministry of health of ukraine, which clearly sets for support for the pentagon to joint biological research applicable to dangerous pathogens located in facilities on ukrainian territory. although the american delegation current does not want to respond to our questions, but they are of as much as the russian defense ministry. it is where it is studying what materials we received from ukraine by laboratories about the implementation of military biological programs. over the u. s. and that nato allies on ukrainian

territory over last week. new details have come to light, which allows just state that the components for biological weapons were being created on the territory of ukraine. the implementation of the aforementioned american ukrainian agreement in from 2005 and comments on which we're still waiting for from the us representation has been going full steam ahead for all these years . coming from the document, we can see that the american colleagues were not helping, as they claim the ukrainian ministry of health, but rather than the ukrainian ministry of defense. the doc security council document that we distributed this morning. and you see in that material, you can see the so called to tech technical assistance plan for certain recipients of the ukrainian ministry of defense. i recommend you to look at this document very carefully. it confirms direct funding and

supervision of the pentagon and its defense threat reduction agency of military and biological projects and ukraine. the overall quantity of the funding was $32000000.00 and the direct and the money went directly to the following. the borrow trees in them from the ministry of defense of ukraine. in clear, the 10th regional health, epidemiological department of the central health, epidemiological department of the ukrainian ministry of defense. in odessa, the 27th regional health, epidemiological department of the central epidemiological department of the ukrainian minister defense in of, of the 28th regional health epidemic epidemiological department of the central epidemiological department of the ukrainian defense in hawk over 100, an 8th regional department of the ukrainian ministry of defense, epidemiological department,

i'd like to draw attention to one another vitally important point. the representative view stake departments continue to muddle the information and s. and the 3rd ascertain that u. s. a allegedly don't on does not operate in any biological laboratories in the territory of ukraine, but the facts show otherwise. according to the ment plan that i mentioned for technical assistance, the donor is the u. s. ministry of defense. they established the attack, the tasks and the workload with as part of the projects on ukraine in territory. and i said, for a list of the necessary equipment and the delegated significant authority to an affiliated contract, a company, black and vh with cooperation or with ukrainian bodies of our authority. the recipient of american assistance with ukrainian defense ministry and they were allowed timely access for pentagon and contractor staff to laboratories on you can treat knows to carry out work as part of these project. and also to provide access

to these facilities. along with the pentagon staff foreign scientists to the projects themselves included implementing was it was implemented not by the ukrainian scientists, scientists, but with their participation, but simply the ukraine authorities gave the pentagon carte blanche on the territory of ukraine to carry out a dangerous biological experiments where the american contractors at the same time was free, got a tax break under ukrainian legislation. so what did the ukrainian scientists receive in return? either ukrainian people free travel to international conferences, more based on expenses for food and accommodation of established by f for u. s. civil servants, this kind of compensation is carried out is that the compensation provided for working alongside dangerous biological science. this is not the and noble assistance ukraine at the american representatives. talk about this as cynical use

of its territory and population for dangerous research, which washington does not care at on its own territory. so it doesn't run a risk of hurting its own people were not when be surprised if similar facts about activities supervised by the u. s in appear in laboratories and other regions of the world to we call on countries who provide their territory for carrying out this kind of experiments to the pentagon. to carefully study the contracts for their cooperation with the u. s. on in the biological domain, we fully support require the question from china to the us to share the data of the activity of the 360 laboratories and americans control around the world. going back to crane vis or by laboratories in care of a desolate often har cough were selected by the u. s. or different risk reduction agency, not by chance. they were the, those who implemented the u. p. 8. project focused on studying pass and pathogens

of congo, crimea fever, laptops broke this and hum to viruses. we believe that the interest of the military biologists of view is specifically in those pathogens is linked to the fact that they haven't, they are naturally present both in ukraine and in russia. and so that they use could then be dressed up as a natural outbreak of these diseases on the basis or in a laboratory in hong kong. there's also the p $78.00 to $1.00 project to study transmission to humans. of a disease is through back work on this was done alongside the infamous and lu garra sent in tbilisi. and his contact separate attention should be paid to the pentagon choice of carrying out work, or the contractor chosen to carry out work in ukraine. they, black and vh company. it is not just any old company for more than a 100 years. it's been working for the american army. it has built for them. army

military base is including a deliberate train, los alamos, to develop nuclear weapons and transmit research into human transmission of diseases. 3 baths in ukraine in barlow by the birches was systemic. and what has been happening as a minimum since 2009 with a direct oversight of specialist from the usa during implementation of these projects, 6 families of viruses were identified including corona, viruses, and 3 types of pathogenic bacteria. the pathogens from the plague brucellosis and lactose pirates this, these are the most attractive option to use in august for infection because they are resistant to medicine. and they spread very quickly from animals to people. as part of the flu, fly away project, the ha cove institute of veterinary medicine, studied wild birds as a vector of to transmit a, the flu. and the same time,

they asked us the ways in which the transmission process could become uncontrollable, can cause economic damage. and create a risk to food security. documents show the involvement of the hawk of institute in the work to collect strains of avian flu viruses which are have high epidemiological potential and could cross the species barrier. the russian ministry of defense also has more and more new documents about the transfer of samples of blood, serum of ukrainian citizens to the touch of 3rd countries, including to the u. k, ga and germany. what is the analysis of the information gives us grounds to say that the crane or specialists were not informed about the potential risks of transfer of biological materials and use and are kept in the dark. i didn't have a real idea, but the real objectives of the research being carried out as is not surprising if,

according to the contract documentation that i mentioned earlier, they are simply playing a secondary role. we also have new data about attempts to destroy by biological materials and documentation and ukrainian laboratories in order to quickly wipe the traces of implementation of military and political programs. we know that during the activities to destroy this, they've at it true that veterinary medicine laboratory in helper dusk town. there are citizens of ukraine, a staff working that weren't even allowed into the building. this laboratory cooperates with the melt scenic cove scientific research institute in odessa. where is research is carried out in pathogens of the plague, anthrax, cholera, until every mia and attempts to wipe the traces of biological waste from the laboratories in labor dusk. these waste was taken a 120 kilometers towards the western border towards trutina and barrow xena. the

russian mister defence as record did all of this, these information to carry out a legal assessment. further down the line, the emergent emergency urgent destruction of documents in hearse and available are tree. and we believe that were 2 reasons for this rush was their wish to hide from russian specialists information about an outbreak in 2019 in house and of darrow filigree. isis as a disease which is spread by mosquitoes. the 4 cases of infection of this disease were identified in february, which is not usual for the life cycle of these insects, even to boeing in mind, the incubation period for the disease. at the same time, we are aware that in april 2019 a representative, the pentagon visited the local institution health institutions, where they learnt of the results of the epidemiological research. and they were able to copy the medical documentation ready to snap of any fakes,

which are provided by the current cranial authorities with the support of their western back as the western media expressing bouts. as regards the reliability of the material that russian miss defense is published, i'd like to draw your attention to the following. the document that we found have a signature, a real signature of officials from the u. s. particularly many of them are signed by the head of ukraine in office of the threat to reduction agency joanna winch role. this is a pentagon staff member and well known in not well known in non proliferation circles. before your claim, she supervisor destruction of chemical weapons in libya. if journalists really are interested in the verifying the documents that we provided, then i propose that you ask her directly, is that really her signature? i'd like to underscore once again that here we're talking not simply about the u. s . and ukraine's violation of the biological weapons convention route. you're talking about that there is more and more proof that at the center of eastern

europe until the very last minute. there was a dangerous military biological activity being carried out. the consequences of which at any time could spread beyond the country. and even in the region, the scale of casualties, including amongst a population of ukraine in a european countries, in this case, in a scenario, it's hard to imagine current a virus isn't, could be nothing compared with this. we're also concerned 5. it was a threat of lo, it exists, for example, 2018. those living in legal can done that there was a shop spike in case of tuberculosis caused by a new moke tea resistant strain during this muff outbreak recorded in the region in pest. and more than 70 cases of infection were recorded, which were quickly became lethal. this doesn't look like coincidence. and conclusion, like to comment on the statement made by the representative, the one secretariat. but the subject does not have information about the

implementation of military and biological programs on the territory of ukraine. in line with this, b to b. c, states, parties provide the un information about facilities and biological activities carried act. we're talking about confidence building measures which are published in order to monitor instrumentation of a convention since 2006, which was when the these project started, including the project, c, p for e, p 8, p 781 the u. s. and ukraine has been deliberately keeping quiet about this in my reports, despite the clear military and the logical purposes of this. this is why russia, for many years, has been calling for strengthening of the b to b c regime and to adopt a legally binding protocol to the convention, which it allows to create an effective mechanism of verification and include in reporting from states parties, information information on military, biological activities carried out abroad for 20 years,

the u. s. has been blocking this kind of work, refusing to provide this kind of information. it is one of the question m, which the representatives of the us have time and time again, been not providing us with all of the facts i like really see today on the 11th of march are only the tip of the iceberg. ministry of defense is receiving more and more material and analyzing that we will continue to keep the international community informed about the unlawful activity carried up by the pentagon on ukrainian territory. thank you for your attention escalated. it had the rosy albany . i thank the representative of russia for his statement and give a far till albania. thank you mister president. let me express our shock on the southern passing away of a colleague of ours master jim kelly the pure violent and a seasoned diplomat. we convey to irish colleagues and to jim's family are most heartfelt condolences on this terrible loss.