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Russia Criticizes G-8 on Disarmament Aid
A top Russian nuclear official last month accused the Group of Eight industrialized nations’ Global Partnership program of failing to assist WMD disarmament and nonproliferation programs in his country to the extent promised, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Dec. 21, 2005). “The sums actually spent are different from the ones that were promised,” said Sergei Antipov, deputy director of Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency. “Participants in the Global Partnership program had promised to spend $1.415 billion on disarmament programs” last year in Russia, but “the contracts concluded until the end of September added up to $354 million,” Antipov said. “There are countries that haven’t yet freed up a cent for Russia,” he said. Moscow still plans to dismantle all its decommissioned nuclear submarines by 2010, he said. “We are following the timetable for dismantling our nuclear submarines independent of financing from our partners,” Antipov said (Agence France-Presse, Feb. 2). Antipov also said Russia may become a Global Partnership donor instead of being its recipient within several years, ITAR-Tass reported on Feb. 2. “In the future Russia will begin to share its experience in this field with other countries,” he said (ITAR-Tass, Feb. 2).
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