Members of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots discussed with Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Stanislav Zas the presence of biological laboratories in some countries near the Russian borders. Leonid Kalashnikov, head of the committee, told reporters, TASS reported.

Kalashnikov said that they talked about health issues and indirect issues of maintaining, for example, biological laboratories in some countries, this does not apply to the CSTO, but it applies to the political component, to them.

Kalashnikov also said that after the peacekeeping operation in Kazakhstan, some internal CSTO procedures will be adjusted.

He summarized by saying that there is a Parliamentary Assembly of the CSTO, which is designed to help with legislative issues.

As Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said earlier, the biological laboratories being set up by the U.S. around the world pose a threat to the health of tens of millions of people.