Conflict broke out on the floor of the Biological Weapons Convention in Geneva on the third day of the three week long meeting, with the growing division between Russia and her allies on the one hand and the US and hers on the other, evidencing in verbal accusations launched by both sectors.
Russia exerted her "right of reply" to respond to statements made by the US and Sweden which implicated Syrian forces in the use of chemical weapons in that war torn country.
According to the spokesperson for the Russian Federation, such accusations were not only "off topic" at a meeting devoted to biological—not chemical—weapons but were also patently false.
More likely, asserted the Russian spokesman, was that US-affiliated "jihadists" used chlorine gas and attempted to pin this on the embattled Assad regime. The US, he declared, is known to be supporting terrorist groups such as Al Nusra in that region.
Not to be left out in the cold, the US-connected Ukrainian spokesperson also defended the US's assertions. The representative from Syria also weighed in, stating he had no problem being referred to as "Bashar al Assad's delegate"—apparently intended as a slur against the delegate—and spoke in support of the current regime in Syria.
I think of this conference at the United Nations as Ground Zero. Every five years, there is a Review Conference of the Biological Weapons in Geneva, Switzerland.
For three weeks, delegates from over a hundred and seventy nations meet to discuss the latest advances in biological weapons—whose got 'em, who might have 'em and what to do to protect a vulnerable world from their proliferation and deployment.
Comment: The seeds of a new Eurasian order are potentially being sown in the wake of the destruction that Syria has faced. No doubt this will be a real reconstruction, unlike the wasteful farcical projects in Iraq ran by Halliburton and the like, which were simply another way to loot from American tax payers.