Top Russian official misrepresents U.S. on chemical weapons, ignores Kremlin’s use of chems and ally Syria against own citizens.
“Despite the ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the United States is the only country in the world that still has not completed getting rid of them.”Since invading Ukraine on February 24, Russia has consistently spread the false claim that the United States is secretly funding “biolabs” and the development of biological weapons in Ukraine.
"Despite the ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the United States is the only country in the world that still has not completed getting rid of them,” Kartapolov said during at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a six-country alliance that includes Russia.While the United States has not yet fully eradicated its chemical weapons stockpile, it is not alone in possessing chemical weapons.
Albania, India, Iraq, Libya, Syria, the United States, Russia and an anonymous state “widely believed to be South Korea,” all declared they had chemical weapons stockpiles when they joined the CWC, according to the Arms Control Association , a nonprofit that advocates for global arms control policies.
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