Russia to Focus on Weapons Destruction Progress at Chemical Disarmament Commission Meeting

The Russian State Commission on Chemical Disarmament is focusing on 2005 weapons disposal results and the second stage of disarmament efforts at a meeting that began yesterday, RIA Novosti reported (see GSN, July 27).

The commission is expected to review construction of the chemical weapons destruction facility at Kambarka, which is slated to be finished by the end of 2005, according to a spokesman for the Privolzhsky federal district. The facility is being constructed under the terms of a federal program on destroying Russia’s weapons stockpiles approved on July 20.

Russia expects to complete the second stage of chemical weapons disarmament by April 29, 2007, RIA Novosti reported. The country must destroy 20 percent of its stockpile by that year (RIA Novosti, July 27).

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