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A meeting of the Scientific Advisory Council under the parliamentary commission to investigate the circumstances related to the creation of biological laboratories by American specialists on the territory of Ukraine was held.Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev and Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Irina Yarovaya held the second meeting of the Scientific Advisory Council under the parliamentary commission to investigate the circumstances related to the creation of biological laboratories by American specialists in Ukraine.The event took place at the site of the Federal State Budgetary Institution National Research Center Kurchatov Institute. Mikhail Kovalchuk President of the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute acted as the main expert during the event .The scientific and expert component of the work of the parliamentary commission is becoming more and more in demand said Konstantin Kosachev . He noted that the assistance of scientists is especially important in the investigation of activities in which dual-use technologies are used where it is important to note the boundaries separating civilian technologies from military ones.The vice-speaker of the Federation Council believes that American experts are deliberately trying to expand and blur such boundaries. In addition to the well-known US position against the establishment of control and verification mechanisms under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention BTWC another position is the denial of the scientific and expert dimension in the context of the implementation of the BTWC.Konstantin Kosachev suggested that the representatives of the Scientific Advisory Council once again discuss the issue of the threat to world civilization posed by the possible creation of selective biological weapons.
