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🗓️ 27 March 2022
⏱️ 171 minutes
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0:00.0 | The work we do in the Biological Threat Reduction Program is complicated, |
0:05.0 | and it's difficult to communicate it sometimes to outside audiences. |
0:10.0 | And I think our adversaries like Russia can take advantage of that |
0:13.0 | with some of the propaganda that they put out. |
0:16.0 | The Biological Threat Reduction Program is working in 27 countries. |
0:20.0 | We feel this disinformation and misinformation is done just to really exploit divisions. |
0:26.6 | We've had accusations that some research projects were being used to create threats, |
0:32.6 | not to identify threats and reduce them. |
0:35.6 | Alterier motives are being injected where none exist. |
0:40.3 | We've built these capabilities for the partners, |
0:42.3 | their central reference labs for research. |
0:45.3 | They publish everything they do. |
0:47.3 | They invite the international community into their laboratories. |
0:51.3 | They're working on behalf and the benefit of the people of their respective countries. |
0:57.0 | Kazakhstan, like many of the other republics in the former Soviet Union, had biological weapons. |
1:04.0 | Russia media has attacked the central reference laboratory that was built by the Biological Threat Reduction Program. The laboratory |
1:12.6 | is there to both store dangerous biological pathogens from the Soviet era and to conduct research |
1:20.6 | by Kazakhstanists in order to prevent the spread of new biological pathogens. |
1:28.3 | Work in Ukraine is essential to help safeguard Europe from some of the naturally occurring diseases |
1:35.3 | that could really undermine security across the region and ultimately to the United States. |
1:42.3 | Russia and Ukraine have launched a volley of claims and counterclaims. |
1:47.6 | It's becoming impossible really to verify any of it. |
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