The Georgian National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC) said on Friday that it is ready to receive Russian experts to inspect the US-funded Richard Lugar Center for Public Health and Research in Tbilisi, where the Pentagon was, according to Russian claims, running a secret biological weapons laboratory, Sputnik reported.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday that the Pentagon was running a secret biological weapons lab at the Lugar Center for Public Health and Research, located outside of Tbilisi. At a press conference on Friday, NCDC Director Amiran Gamkrelidze agreed to a request from a Sputnik correspondent to visit the laboratory, but the center later reversed its decision and refused to allow Russian media to the lab along with the Georgian ones. However, they were finally granted permission to visit it.
"We are always ready to accept Russian experts and any volunteers. Come, have a look and verify there is nothing similar to what they say is happening here," Paata Imnadze, the head of the NCDC scientific council, said.
