Russia Boosts Chemical Weapons Storage Site Security

Russia has increased security around chemical weapons storage sites over the last four years to combat threats of terrorism, State Commission on Chemical Disarmament Secretary Alexander Kharichev said (see GSN, Oct. 27).

“We are modernizing the protection system of all our sites,” he told Agence France-Presse, adding that work on security improvements is expected to be completed by the end of 2005.

“Today all the sites are sufficiently protected” after Russia in 2003 decided to triple funding for security systems at the facilities. “In 2001, only two [of seven] sites were sufficiently protected from the threat of terrorism,” he said (Agence France-Presse, Nov. 1).

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