NEW YORK, March 12 — The United Nations yesterday said it had no evidence Ukraine had a biological weapons programme while Washington and its allies accused Russia of spreading the unproven claim as a possible prelude to launching its own biological or chemical attacks.
Izumi Nakamitsu, the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, told the council the United Nations is “not aware” of any biological weapons programme in Ukraine, which joined an international ban on such arms, as has Russia and the United States along with 180 other countries. The US envoy to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said Washington was “deeply concerned” that Russia called the session as a “false flag effort” to lay the groundwork for its own use of biological or chemical weapons in Ukraine.
“The intent behind these lies seems clear, and it is deeply troubling,” she said. “We believe Russia could use chemical or biological agents for assassinations, as part of a staged or false flag incident, or to support tactical military operations.
US allies echoed Thomas-Greenfield’s concerns that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government was spreading the claim of a US-backed bioweapons programme in Ukraine to prepare its own chemical or biological attacks in Ukraine.
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