Ukraine complies with the UN arms control convention, and claims by representatives of certain districts of the Luhansk region that the Ukrainian army is storing toxic substances at depots in the Stanytsia Luhanska district are untrue, the Ukrainian mission to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) said.
The Luhansk information center’s website posted LPR militants’ spokesman Andrei Marochko’s report titled ‘Ukrainian army storing toxic substances at depots in the Stanytsia Luhanska district’ on April 17, the Anti-Terrorist operation (ATO) staff said on Facebook on Tuesday, quoting JCCC Ukrainian members.
“The information shared in this report is untrue, as the Ukrainian leadership signed the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction on January 13, 1993,” the staff said.
“This international treaty on arms control concluded under UN aegis declares a full ban on the production and use of chemical weapons, given their harmful impact on the environment and human health, and sets related obligations of member countries,” the Ukrainian mission to the JCCC said.
Ukraine has fully met those obligations, as well as the obligations it undertook under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, which aims to stop the use of anti-personnel mines as a method of warfare, it said.
Donetsk and Luhansk are trying to discredit the Ukrainian leadership from the angle of compliance with international law by doing so, the staff said.
