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Gorbachev Calls on G-8 Partnership to Expand WMD Nonproliferation Efforts in Russia
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is asking 22 leaders of the Group of Eight Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction to expand their efforts, particularly in Russia, Green Cross International announced yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 15). “While G-8 Global Partnership efforts over the past four years have helped secure and/or eliminate thousands of nuclear weapons, construct chemical weapons destruction facilities, and retrain thousands of former weapons scientists, much remains to be done,” Gorbachev said in a letter to the leaders. Gorbachev requested that the leaders expedite funding, especially for WMD nonproliferation work in Russia. Other threat-reduction priorities include increased transparency and “protection of public health and the environment,” according to the letter. The Global Partnership in 2002 pledged $20 billion over 10 years — half from the United States and half from other countries — to combat the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and materials (Green Cross International release, Dec. 20).
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