The statement says that on March 22 of this year a draft federal bill on removing reservations made by the USSR to the Geneva Protocol in 1928 was submitted to the State Duma.
As a depositary country, Russia consistently advocates the creation of an effective mechanism to control the implementation of the 1972 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, and takes an active part in negotiations on working out a Protocol aimed at its strengthening and updating.
The text of the statement will be distributed as an official document in the UN and the Geneva Disarmament Conference.