Amid new claims by Moscow of a covert biological weapons programme in Ukraine, the Director of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) affirmed on Friday that the UN is not aware of any such programme and has neither the mandate nor the technical operational capacity to investigate it – a message first delivered to the Security Council on 11 and 18 March, by High Representative Izumi Nakamitsu.
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