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U.S. Response: Bush Releases Frozen Cooperative Threat Reduction Funds U.S. President George W. Bush has signed two waivers to release about $470 million in frozen U.S. funding for Russian nonproliferation projects, Bush administration officials said yesterday (see GSN, Jan. 14). The waivers override congressional criteria placed on the funding of these projects, which is done through the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, for one year, according to the Los Angeles Times. One waiver will release $416 million appropriated for the CTR program in fiscal 2003, which includes funding for the construction of a Russian chemical weapons disposal plant, the Times reported. The second waiver will release $50 million that was allocated last year for the plant’s construction. Bush is committed to improving the security of Russia’s weapons of mass destruction, said National Security Council spokesman Sean McCormack. “These are crucial programs that need to move forward,” McCormack said. “At the same time, we are going to work diligently with the Russians to deal with the problems we discuss in the waivers,” he added (Maura Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 15).
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