US pushes Russia to share more information on plague lab case
America’s top diplomat has urged Russia to share more information about the death of a laboratory technician at a plague research institute last week.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking in Iceland on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT), said the global community needed further details.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during his visit to Iceland on Tuesday, October 6. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)
“I think it’s incumbent upon Russia to obviously share more information with the world. That’s what they should do. That’s what we hope they will do,” he said.
“And the more we can learn about what happened, then the better all of us can be in a position of responding.”
Rubio said the US government was monitoring developments “very closely, hour by hour”.
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