MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. Russia’s State Duma (the lower house of parliament) on October 27 will consider a draft address to the world’s parliaments about the need to strengthen the implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention, the State Duma’s press service said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that that document would be reviewed at the behest of State Duma Deputy Speaker Irina Yarovaya.
"During an October 25 expert meeting of the parliamentary commission investigating the creation of biolabs in Ukraine by US specialists, Yarovaya suggested that the two chambers of Russia’s parliament should make a joint address to the world’s parliaments, highlighting the need to strengthen the implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction," the statement reads.
Yarovaya pointed out that there had been no adequate response to Moscow’s efforts to initiate an international investigation of Washington’s military biological research "though the situation where both Russia and all other countries are up against mounting threats from the US military and biological project is only getting worse." The deputy speaker also noted that earlier, "there was a report about US researchers creating a new COVID-19 strain that has a mortality rate of 80%," which was "heavily criticized by scientists from various countries." "In addition, German researchers said they had found proof that the coronavirus had been created in a lab. All these facts are reason enough to say that transparency is not the only thing that US military and biological activities require. They also require serious control and assessment," Yarovaya emphasized.