(ANSA-AFP) - THE HAGUE, NOV 28 - Russia's invasion of Ukraine
has increased the threat from weapons of mass destruction
including chemical munitions, the head of the world's toxic arms
watchdog said on Monday. The Organisation for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was closely monitoring the situation in
Ukraine, its chief Fernando Arias told the regulator's annual
meeting. "The situation in Ukraine has again increased the real
threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, including chemical
weapons," Arias told the meeting in The Hague. "It has
exacerbated existing tensions to a point where unity of the
international community on common global challenges related to
international security and peace cannot be presumed."
International disarmament bodies like the Nobel Peace
Prize-winning OPCW "now have become places for confrontation and
disagreement", Arias lamented. Threats and allegations about the
possible use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons have
been traded since the war in Ukraine began in February, but with
no evidence they have been deployed. (ANSA-AFP).
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