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New Zealand Gives Money for Russian Disarmament
New Zealand today said it has contributed approximately $800,000 to help Russia decommission its last plutonium-producing nuclear reactor and for a project to destroy chemical weapons in Siberia (see GSN, Dec. 21). The money is part of New Zealand’s continued funding of disarmament efforts by the Group of Eight economic powers, according to a New Zealand press release. “Our contribution to these two major G-8 global partnership projects underlines New Zealand's commitment to disarmament and to nuclear safety,” said New Zealand Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Phil Goff in the press release. New Zealand last year contributed nearly $810,000 for construction of a chemical weapons disposal site in Siberia. It is delivering more than $472,000 for the project in this fiscal year. “A proportion of the year's funding will benefit the community surrounding the chemical weapon destruction facility, through measures such as providing heating for a nursery school,” Goff said. “In addition, [more than $337,000] will go toward a project to shut down Russia's last plutonium-producing nuclear reactor and replace it with a fossil fuel plant,” Goff said. “New Zealand's funding will be directed toward ensuring that the replacement fossil fuel plant at Zheleznogorsk meets high environmental standards” (New Zealand press release, Dec. 22).
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