As Russia convened a Security Council meeting on the issue of biological laboratories in Ukraine, India stated that any matter relating to obligations under the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention should be addressed through consultation and cooperation between the parties concerned .
India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations TS Tirumurti said, “We have repeatedly expressed our serious concern over the current situation in Ukraine.”
Speaking at the UN Security Council briefing on Ukraine: Report of Biological Programs on Friday, he said that India has taken note of recent statements by states and extensive information regarding biological activities related to Ukraine. In this context, we would like to underline the importance India attaches to the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention (BTWC) as a premier global and non-discriminatory disarmament convention, which covers a full range of weapons of mass destruction. prohibits it,” he said.
Tirumurti stressed that it is important to ensure complete and effective implementation of BTWC in letter and spirit. “We also believe that any matter relating to obligations under the BTWC should be addressed in accordance with the provisions of the Convention, and through consultation and cooperation between the parties concerned,” it said.
Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacekeeping Affairs, told the council that Russian armed forces were pursuing their offensive operations and laying siege to several cities in the south, east and north of the country. He said the situation is particularly worrying in Mariupol, Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv, where there is shelling of residential areas and civilian infrastructure, resulting in increasing numbers of civilians and injuries.
“These cities are being visited by utter devastation. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has received credible reports of the Russian military using cluster weapons, including in populated areas.
Indiscriminate attacks, including the use of cluster munitions that are of the nature for military purposes and non-discriminatory attacks on civilians or civilian objects, are prohibited under international humanitarian law. He said attacks against civilians and civilian objects, as well as so-called territorial bombings of towns and villages, are prohibited under international law and may amount to war crimes.
Russia requested the meeting to discuss the claims made by US-backed chemical and biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine. Russian Permanent Representative Vasily Nebenzia told the council that “we have discovered the truly shocking facts of emergency clean-up by the Kyiv regime, which are the mark of a military biological program being implemented by Kyiv with the support of the US Defense Ministry.” He said that Russia’s Defense Ministry has documents confirming that on the territory of Ukraine there was a network of 30 bio-laboratories where “the pathogenic properties of plague, anthrax, cholera and other deadly diseases have been strengthened using synthetic biology.” Very dangerous biological experiments were being conducted for the purpose of
Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Poliansky tweeted that “the Russian mission called for a meeting of the #SecurityCouncil on March 11 to discuss US military biological activities in the territory of #Ukraine”. Tirumurti said India sincerely hopes that the ongoing direct talks between Russia and Ukraine will end hostilities. There is no other option than through diplomacy and dialogue. He said the grave humanitarian situation required immediate and immediate attention.
India once again called upon the member states to abide by the principles of the United Nations Charter and international law and to respect the sovereignty and integrity of the states. DiCarlo said that as of March 11, the OHCHR has recorded a total of 1,546 civilian casualties, including 564 killed and 982 wounded, since the invasion began on February 24. He expressed concern that the OHCHR believed that the actual casualties were likely to be much higher. ,
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