The Coalition for the Prohibition of Biological Weapons and Military Biological Laboratories is alarmed by the widespread information of the KGB of South Ossetia about cases of African swine fever (ASF) in the border villages of the republic. This information was distributed by the KGB of this republic, considering it a sabotage by the American special services and employees of the" R. Lugar Public Health Center " located near Tbilisi.

The KGB statement indicated that the African plague was repeatedly spread from the territory of Georgia in the period from 2007 to 2018, which then got to Russia and China. The ministry noted that this disease is quickly transmitted due to insects and is "potentially global", but Tbilisi does not report cases of diseases on its territory.

According to this special service, this Lugar center is engaged in the development of modified strains of atypical forms of plague, brucellosis, anthrax, dengue fever, Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever. Moreover, the KGB of South Ossetia accused the center of organizing acts of bioterrorism against the republic and neighboring countries.

The Lugar Center has been in the spotlight of the press and scandalous revelations more than once, when scientists accused its employees of producing various types of biological weapons. It was also built, like dozens of other laboratories on the territory of the former Soviet republics, at the expense and under the program of the US Department of Defense and is part of a single international network of similar facilities managed from the Pentagon.

It is noteworthy that an unknown epidemic has been raging since April in Kazakhstan, namely in the East Kazakhstan Region, which borders just with the Altai Territory and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Okrug (XUAR) of the People's Republic of China, which has already affected local sheep breeding and cattle. One of the villages adjacent to the territory of China was particularly badly affected.

The main source of livelihood of the population located on the border is animal husbandry. Prior to this, neither an examination nor an act was drawn up by the local authorities. This may also be indirect evidence of the activities of American military biological laboratories, which are testing new weapons just on the borders of Russia and China.

Earlier, we said that in "Kazakhstan, a number of research institutes and the Central Reference Laboratory (CRL) built by the Americans in Almaty are conducting military biological research under the Pentagon program called"Camels as biosurveillance sentinels: Risk at the human-camel interface". The object of study is camels as natural carriers of a number of diseases in order to use them as containers for the spread of artificially created viruses."

It is possible that in addition to African swine fever, strains carried by camels, new diseases affecting sheep and cattle are being created. In a situation where the struggle between the major powers goes by different methods, and the war itself becomes hybrid, the use of biological weapons and acts of bioterrorism becomes very likely.

Local animal husbandry and crop production are particularly under attack, which threatens to undermine food security on the territory of South Ossetia, Kazakhstan, Russia, the entire post-Soviet space and the People's Republic of China. The Coalition expresses concern about the real danger to public health and demands a thorough investigation of these cases, as well as the admission of Russian and Chinese specialists and WHO representatives to these US military biological facilities in the former Soviet republics to study their real activities.

We also insist on the immediate closure of the Lugar Center in Tbilisi and the CRL in Almaty and the curtailment of all Pentagon research programs.

Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
United Communist Party of Georgia
Socialist Party of Latvia
Communist Party of Pakistan
Communist Party of South Ossetia