Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov looks on sitting in front of a screen displaying Russian President Vladimir Putin addressing his annual press conference via a video link from the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, at the World Trade Centre's congress centre in Moscow on December 17, 2020, amid the ongoing coronavirus disease pandemic. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)
MOSCOW – The Kremlin on Thursday dismissed as baseless and illogical US calls for Russia to destroy its chemicals weapons, saying that Moscow had destroyed them long ago in line with the chemical weapons convention.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the US was the one that should fulfill its obligations under the convention and that its statements looked like another attempt to hold Russia back.
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