MOSCOW, March 31. /TASS/. A parliamentary commission that investigates the work of biolaboratories in Ukraine will prepare proposals to improve the convention banning biological weapons and mechanisms to control its violations, Federation Council Deputy Speaker Konstantin Kosachev, co-chairman of the commission, said on Thursday.
"Our task will not only be to establish the facts of how the Americans violate the convention and the rights of the citizens of the countries in which they work. They violate the rights of Russian citizens, because this is an uncontrollable, cross-border threat," Kosachev said after the commission's first meeting.
"I'm sure that my colleagues and I will also come up with a package of proposals that will be related to improving the convention, its mechanisms, in order to stop any attempts by Americans and others like them to bypass this convention, to violate it, to create new global threats to all mankind," he added.
In her turn, Russian State Duma Deputy Speaker Irina Yarovaya who co-chairs the commission said that they are working on the issue of summoning US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Hunter Biden, the son of the US President.
"Earlier, Chairman of the State Duma [Vyacheslav Volodin] <…> gave instructions to review among the first-order issues the issue of the possibility of summoning for clarifications those US officials who according to public information that was reported both by foreign and Russian sources have the knowledge, understanding and relation to this issue. This is why today the commission was assigned to begin working on the issue of inviting Nuland and Biden Jr.," the legislator noted.
She also noted that based on the results of the parliamentary investigation, Russia can initiate additional measures to protect peace and security in the UN. "Today we have a unique opportunity, by conducting a parliamentary investigation and examining direct documents and evidence, to initiate, among other things, consideration on the UN platform of those initiatives that will be aimed at protecting peace and security," Yarovaya said.
Kosachev said that the next meeting of the commission will be held on April 4 in the Federation Council. "Our next meeting will be devoted to the analysis of what is happening or has been happening in Russia in recent years in terms of biological and bacteriological threats, epidemics and pandemics and establishing cause-and-effect links. Because perhaps some or maybe all of this is directly related to the activities of American biolaboratories in Ukraine," he said.