BATTLE FOR WORLD | May 27, 2020: The lab was opened near Tbilisi’s international airport in the year 2011 under a US governmental program, where the Richard Lugar Center specializes in the study of biological threats.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, an envoy to the Russian Federation Council (upper house of parliament) said he's waiting for an invitation to talk with his counterpart in Georgia.

"There is always official exchange between states in the form of verbal notes or letters, appeals which are formulated in official letters and sent to the other side in hopes for a certain reaction. In fact, we are yet to receive any reaction to our latest request," said the Deputy Foreign Minister.

On Wednesday (May 27) the Georgian Foreign Ministry announced readiness to invite Russian experts to inspect activities at the research center, but only within the jurisdiction of the UN Biological Weapons Convention mechanisms, and was ready in the past and continue to be in the future to welcome relevant Russian experts to access the laboratory's infrastructure. And that Georgia rejects the idea that its US partners play any roles or carry out any functions in the center.*

(BattleForWorld: *According to others, the research work is piecemeal out, so no one research center has full knowledge of what they are working on. And the foreign labs research on paper would show project segments not officially related to bioweapons. Only the heads of the project at central would know how the research segments match together. Wuhan, Ukraine, Georgia...would not know.)

The Russian senator recalled that a request was officially submitted to visit the Richard Lugar laboratory back in June 2019, but "still has not received any clear answer regarding this rather crucial and sensitive issue, especially considering what is happening now in the world." And so "Therefore, we continue discussing this topic and will hope that the Georgian side will be considerate to the concerns all its neighbors, including Russia, have in view of this."

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