China News Service, March 24. According to the WeChat public account released by the Ministry of National Defense, on March 24, Wu Qian, director of the Information Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense and spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defense, said when answering a reporter's question about the situation in Ukraine that China was once a biological agent. The countries that are victims of weapons have always advocated the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of all weapons of mass destruction, including biological weapons, and firmly opposes the development, possession or use of biological weapons by any country under any circumstances.
China has always believed that the purposes and objectives of the Biological Weapons Convention must be strictly observed.
We urge the US to respond to the concerns of the international community in an open, transparent and responsible manner, earnestly fulfill its obligations under the Convention, make a comprehensive explanation of its domestic and foreign biological militarization activities, and accept multilateral verification.
A question asked that, according to reports, in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the Russian side discovered that the United States has many biological laboratories in Ukraine.
The Russian Ministry of Defense recently released relevant documents saying that the United States carried out biological weapons research in the Ukrainian laboratory.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Nuland admitted that Ukraine has "biological research facilities", and the U.S. side is cooperating with the Ukrainian side to prevent relevant "research materials" from falling into the hands of the Russian military.
A former official of the Ukrainian Security Service disclosed that the US biological laboratory in Ukraine is developing biological weapons.
what opinions do the Chinese have on this issue?
Wu Qian said that we have noticed relevant reports.
Biological weapons are weapons of mass destruction, and biological militarization activities are a major issue concerning international peace and security and the security interests of all countries. Any information and clues about biological military activities should arouse the high concern of the international community.
Wu Qian said that as the country engaged in the most biological militarization activities in the world, the United States has 336 biological laboratories in 30 countries around the world, and has also carried out a large number of biological military activities in Fort Detrick within its borders.
According to public disclosures, dozens of biological laboratories in Ukraine operate under the orders of the US Department of Defense.
The above-mentioned activities of the United States are seriously lacking in transparency, and there are security risks that cannot be ignored. Previously, a rare epidemic broke out in the locations of many overseas biological laboratories of the US military, which caused protests and doubts in many countries.
This is also an important reason why the US biological laboratory in Uzbekistan has aroused widespread concern in the international community.
"We can't help but ask, what is the real intention of the US side of these projects? Why doesn't the US side release the detailed information of these projects? What is the relationship between the US overseas biological laboratory and the US Department of Defense? If the US side's laboratory in Ukraine is only engaged in scientific research Research and disease surveillance, why is the U.S. Department of Defense deeply involved? The U.S. has been exclusively opposed to the establishment of a multilateral verification mechanism for the Biological Weapons Convention for 20 years. Why is this? On these five issues, the U.S. owes the world a clear explanation "Wu Qian pointed out that these major issues of principle cannot be evaded by a frivolous "false information".
He pointed out that China was once a victim of biological weapons, and has always advocated the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of all weapons of mass destruction, including biological weapons, and resolutely opposed the development, possession or use of biological weapons by any country under any circumstances.
China has always believed that the purposes and objectives of the Biological Weapons Convention must be strictly observed.
We urge the US to respond to the concerns of the international community in an open, transparent and responsible manner, earnestly fulfill its obligations under the Convention, make a comprehensive explanation of its domestic and foreign biological militarization activities, and accept multilateral verification.