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a to international peace and security. the agenda is adopted. in accordance with rules, 37 of the counselors provisional rules of procedure, i invite the representative of ukraine to participate in this meeting. it is so decided in accordance with rules. 39, i'll see counsels provisional rules of procedure. i invite mr. i did a g, a bow director and deputy to the high representative for disarmament affairs to participate in this meeting. it is so decided the security council will now begin its consideration of item 2 of the agenda

and i'll give the flaw to mr. a. did a g eval mister president distinguished members of the security council. we are aware that the russian federation has filed an official complaint in line with the provisions of optical 6 regarding allegations of biological weapon programs in ukraine. as high representative when i commit to inform the council in march and may of this year, united nations is not aware of any such biological weapons programs.

this remains the case today. i would also like to note that united nations currently have my either the mandate nor the technical operational capacity to investigate this information as high representative like a mitchell previously stated in the council. the relevant instrument of international law is the 1972 biological weapons convention b, w. c. which effectively prohibits the development products from acquisition transfer, stockpiling and use of biological and talks in weapons. the lesson fredrickson and ukraine are both state parties to the biological weapons convention. mister president, on the 29th of june, 2022, the russian federation submitted

a request for the convening of a formal consultative meeting under article 5 of the b w. c. and the final declaration of the conventions. second and 3rd review conferences. in accordance with the agreed timelines. an informal meeting to discuss the arrangements for the former meeting. took place in geneva on the 27th of july, 2022 chairs by ambassador aid and lit little of the united kingdom. the former qualitative meeting opened on friday 26, august 2022 for a brief procedure or meeting it then resumed its business. on monday,

the 5th of september, 2022 for a period or 4 days, and was chaired by ambassador yagi manya of hungary. the meet the meeting had the presentation by the russian federation of its article 5, cause or 2 from the request regarding respective outstanding questions by the russian federation to the united states and to ukraine. concerning the fulfillment of their respective obligations on that the convention in the context of the oppression of biological laboratories in ukraine. the meeting also heard the response by the delegations of ukraine and the united states. each delegation then made further statement and p fine points raised in the statements. additionally, the meeting had mass now,

states meant from 42 states parties and one signatory state. there then followed an opportunity to respond for the russian federation. united states and ukraine. 3rd parties welcomed the fact that the delegations of the russian federation, ukraine, and united states had sought to clarify the positions with respect to the issue at hand. state parties noted by the constitution or us fully in conformity with the conclusions of the final document of the 3rd review conference relevant to the application of article 5 of the convention. the former qualitative meeting concluded with state parties adopting a report. i agree in that in quote,

no consensus was reached regarding the outcome of the formal qualitative meeting on court. the adoption of the report marked the end of the former consultation process. mr. precedent. the provisions of article 6 have not been invoked since entry into force of the mileage co weapons confidential article 6 of the biological weapons convention states the following one. any states party to this convention, which finds that any other states party is acting in breach of obligations deriving from the provisions of the convention, may lodge a complaint with the security council of the united nations. such a complaint should include all possible evidence confirming its validity,

as well as a request for its consideration by the security council to each state party to this convention undertakes to cooperate in kind out any investigation which vickery counsel may initiate in accordance with the provisions of the track of the united nations on the basis of the complaints received by the council. the scary council shall inform the state parties to the convention of the results of the investigation. the conventional does not provide any guidance on the type of investigation that he counselled me. initiate state parties have also not developed any specific guidance or procedures concerning the modalities to be employed. the purpose of an ethical 6 investigation should the counsel initiate an

investigator from united nations office for this arman affairs? sounds ready to support it. mister president, distinguished members of the security council as high representative gonna commit to mentioned previously. the operations and institutional structures of the b w. c must be further bolstered to ensure it's it is properly equipped and resourced to face future challenges. the conventions upcoming 9th review conference in november and december this year presents the ideal opportunity for its state parties to comprehensively strengthen the convention. i thank you very much for your attention to person you miss. i thank me. say april for his briefing. i now gave the floor to members of the security

council who wished to make statements. i gave the floor to the representative of the russian federation. i believe mister president. we know that the report made by mister elbow, the deputy of the high representative to summit for to sum it affairs said the russian federation asked to convene this security council meeting on the basis of article 6 of the conventional prohibition of biological and talks and weapons so as to consider the complain submitted on the 24th of october, which contains the evidence all for the non compliance by ukraine and us all day approach provisions on the convention in the context of the operational violin bird glove laboratories of ukraine. this is contained in the letter that's circulated in the council of chalk 25th of october in a document number 202-2796. for a long time the russian federation. many

a time express concerned with the military biological activity which has been conducted with direct facilitation and participation of the u. s. department of defense in the laboratories on the territory of former ussr republics, far from the north american continent and close to the russian borders. this activity is conducted inter alia through with a threat to reduction agency of the defense department, and the private companies which are standing contractors of the pentagon. and this includes black and vh special projects, car corporation, c, h 2 m hill and med measure biotech. and this is a direct threat to the biological security of the russian federation in the course with the special military operation of ukraine. we obtained a number of documents and evidence showing the true nature of the interaction between pentagon it's contracts with the ukranian, signed in the military biological area. and they have been provided in detail to many briefings by the ministry of defense of russia and to security council.

meetings, the analysis of this so shows that there is non compliance by the united states in ukraine of the conventions. provisions. when we were deciding to prepare the complaint and to convene this meeting, we were acting in full compliance with the understanding of the convention members states which are in the final documents of the 2nd. and 3rd are review conference of the b w. c convention. and before invoking the mechanism under article 6 of the convention, we undertook everything possible to settle the situation in the multilateral and to bilateral formats. in mid june, we sent to the united states and you crane ad memoirs, a listing specific questions as regards of their compliance with articles one and 4 of the convention and with a request to provide exhaustive answers there to at washington and k of did not provide with qualifications did not undertake

a urgent committee to rectify the situation. taking the continued unacceptable situation of the aerial via security. at the end of june, we sent to the 2 depositors of the convention a request to to initiate in line with article 5 of the convention, the procedure for convening consultative meeting. and we attached to it a great volume of documents to just just by or concerns. at the end of july, there were informal consultations to preliminary and preliminary discuss the organizational issues of the meeting, and then on the 25th of august and on the 5th to the 9th of september, the consultative meeting itself took place. and the fact that it did took place in the subsumed nature of their discussion and confirms the urgent nature of the problem were raised, which is in regard not only just russia, but the entire world community. the russians side is of the v was of the view that the consultative meeting would allow the intro to delegations with the support of the exports to a thoroughly understand the current situation,

to exchange viewpoints, to put professional questions and to receive complete answers there to and the course of the meeting which undertook all efforts necessary so as to provide all materials in detail, provide the argumentation also to own sure that the consultative meet, meeting reaches his goals and resolves the situation. having to do with the military biological activity on the ukrainian territory. we were expecting to receive from the united states and ukraine all necessary clarifications on the substance of our concerns. and we also hope to stimulate washington and kia to introduce comprehensive exhaustive measures to rectify the current situation. but in the wake of the exchange of opinions between members days, we must say though the overwhelming majority of the claims we put forward were not reacted to. as you can see in the final report of the consultative meeting, a was not possible to reach a consensus on the issues raised, the remain outstanding and there must be result. the russian federation confirms,

are there still clear, we still have questions to the i to says in ukraine having to do with their compliance of their obligations only convention in the context of the operation of a biological laboratories in the grained territories. the lisco for questions were disseminated together with a v complaint and all participants of the meeting today can look it up in line with articles sakes over the convention. any state party that is convention which finds at any other state party is acting in breach of obligations deriving from the provisions of the convention, may lodge a complaint with a security council, each member state and then to this convention under taste or cooperate in carrying out any investigation which use the security council may initiate in accordance with the provisions of the charter on the basis of the complaint received by the council. and it is because of this, the russian federation in line with article 6 of the convention turned to the security council with the complaint, a stating that the united states and ukraine are not in compliance with their

obligations and their request to can, to going to be in this meeting to consider this complaint in line with article 6 of the convention, this complaint has all proof showing that it's founded. the 2005 agreement between the pentagon and the minister of health of ukraine to corporate on prevent the dissemination of technology as pathogens and information which can be used to develop biological weapons. the agreement from here on out pentagon can extend assistance to the ministry of health of ukraine in the area of joint biological investigations defining the threat from biological asians and of determining the reaction to it. as regards of the other dangerous pathogens which are on the objects in ukraine, that's article 3. article 4 of the agreement staves of the pathogens can only be held in those laboratories were assisted by the pentagon. and also that the m,

the samples of stamps, collect any grain, have to be sent to the united states as well as lee, as of the survey data on the spread of infectious diseases in ukraine. the result of the work of this agreement by default is sir, is closed in nature under article 7. at the same time, the representative of pentagon or it's so sub contractors under article 5 can participate in any an activity having to do with implementation of the agreement. the direct participation of the pentagon in financing the military biological activity in ukraine is reflected in the plan on providing technical assistance to certain recipients of the minister of defense of ukraine, dated 2018. this is under the same 2005 agreement. the real beneficiary of funds is the ukraine minister of defense laboratories in key of love, odessa, and how to give the implementing sub contractor is

a company black and v special projects corporation by 2020 the number of ukrainian laboratories involved in the work which are blinded by the pentagon to throw the threat reduction agency and to blacken vh company, reach the number of 30. and they are located in of 14000 villages. and this is reflected in the registration card on this scope. and the goals over this activity can be found in the report on the verification of the collection of strains of microorganism or of the collection seen the plague institute research institute in odessa, according to this document, there are 422 color pathogens there. and a 32 you, anthrax, a pathogens. what to draw attention to the fact that there were a great number of vials with the same mass strains from different subcultures in

the absence of recently of mass outbreaks over these does is it in you a given that the nomenclature and the volume of bio ages makes us doubt this was used for a prophylactic preventive or other peaceful purposes. at the same time, the list or the pathogens studies is not in line with the topical issues of healthcare in ukraine, as we have reflected in the w h o documents and these diseases are such as measles, polio, my lightest, t, b, and other socially significant infections but it does include pathogens for dangerous infections, which could be potentially biological warfare agents amongst the dawkins. we received other descriptions of projects and called you before flow flyway and pete, 781 have to study the possibility of disseminating dangers. infections through migrating migratory birds including i, pathogen, hulu and newcastle disease and baths, including the kind that could in fact are people with

a plague leaped aspire as his brother brucellosis as well as corona, viruses and file viruses and the they can be considered as potential means of delivery, the scope for both projects includes not just the broadly areas bordering in with russia, but inside russia as well. for the more on the 9th of march, on the territory of the hairs on our blood, the our armed forces filed 3 drowns with containers. sir, 30 liter containers and equipment which can be used to sort of spray by o agents at the end of april 2022 or we found 10 or more similar can a devices in your kafka. and these facts become particularly important against the fact that there was a request from the crenan side to the barrack to her company, to put a maximal, a possible payload, pay load on a bike that a kinship device. their range is 300 kilometers and possibly equipping them with aerosol spray containers or containing more than 20 liters. at the same time,

there is no answer to a question about the united states patent 8967029. b, one of 3rd march 2015 issued by the patent bureau on a drone, which can do which can spray contaminated mosquitoes. in other words, on using a device which can be used as a technical means of a delivery and use of biological weapons, biological immunological agents, bacteria and viruses, including highly contagious one, which i quote, could destroy the entire enemy personnel in line with the description such and drone transports a container with a large number of mosquitoes who will transmit the infection and then releases them when the mosquitoes bite they infect people with

a particular dangerous diseases. the explanation underscores are the infected. a military person will be unable to carry out his tasks as a result of which this disease can be militarily more significant than the most advanced military equipment. it is stated that such an infection of an enemy personnel would be a providing considerable effect in line with you as legislation. you cannot issue a patent in the united states without a detail description of the actual machine. therefore, we can conclude that the container as a means of deliberate bio agents was developed and can be operationally produced in ukrainian reporting, which they submit to yearly, under confidence building measures to that convention in which was addressed to a member states. so as to prevent or, or reduce, lack of clarity on the programs and project says 2016,

including projects who before plu, flyway and p 781 and of funding from military agencies from other foreign states is absent. which case raises questions about their political obligations. to provide information on confidence building measures of all member states under the convention in a united states record or reporting information about programming projects outside of national territory. and their funding is also absent. and our request to provide such information on not being reacted to such cajun as an ignoring by the united states of, of russian requests only under on down disclose the fact that is grounded these a circumstance and the nature of the military biological activity in ukraine shows that there are violations by the u. s. and ukraine of articles $1.00 and $4.00 of the convention. such assessments are also confirmed in the analytical reports by

their son, entity of the ukrainian security service of, of june 2016 of every $27.00 team. they state that the of threat reduction agency conducted through black and the special projects were aimed at establishing control over the functioning on microbiology laboratory in ukraine to study pathogens for infectious diseases which can be used to create or update biological weapons. it is stated that the fact that to others projects are reporting to military agencies of in other states i is conducive to having foreign specialists gain access to all abroad or is and gain information about the strategic developments. miss president, we submitted a draft of to resolution to the security guards are, which were in line with article 6 over the convention is aimed at establishing and sending a security council commission so as to investigate the claims we have submitted claims against the united states in ukraine in this have to do with

a non compliance with their obligations under the convention in the context of the operational val labord laboratories of ukraine. it's been discussed by experts and i hope that this will expeditiously agreed on past. we hope that the council commission will be able to very expeditiously clarify all of this circumstance or potential noncompliance by washington in care of the obligations under the condition in the context of the operational by laboratories. so as to stimulate the american and ukraine as i to rectify the current unacceptable situation. we expect that the relevant report with the recommendations commissions will be submitted to the security council no later than the 30th of november. and that the members of the convention will be informed of the outcome of investigation in the course of the 9th review conference planned in geneva, on the 20th of november to 16th december. depending on the result of the consideration of our complaint and to the security council draft resolution, russia will make