Thus, Matviyenko recalled the 20th anniversary of the meeting of the Security Council of the world organization, during which Washington made an attempt to justify the intention to send troops to Iraq.
On February 5, 2003, Colin Powell, who was then US Secretary of State, at a meeting of the UN Security Council, announced that the United States had information that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had biological weapons technology.
As evidence, he showed a test tube with white powder.
Later it became known that there were no biological weapons in Iraq, and Powell explained that he showed a test tube for persuasiveness.
Matvienko called this case a crime without a statute of limitations, and also called for everything not to hush up the truth about the perpetrators of the invasion of Iraq.
The politician also noted that the American invasion of Iraq is comparable to the nuclear attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“I think it would be right if this story about a monstrous lie that led to a huge tragedy sounded clearly and unambiguously in the near future at the UN site,” she wrote on Telegram.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov expressed confidence that the United States does not need to hope that the memory of the staging in the UN Security Council with the “Powell test tube” will be forgotten, the United States will have to get rid of the permissiveness syndrome.