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The Netherlands Pledges Aid to Russian Chemical Weapons Disposal Efforts
From Wednesday, November 26, 2003 issue.
The Netherlands has signed an agreement with Russia to provide almost $5 million to aid the destruction of Russia’s chemical weapons stockpile, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons announced today (see GSN, Nov. 27, 2002). The funding, to be provided in two equal allocations in 2003 and 2004, will help modernize an electrical sub-station that will power a planned Russian chemical weapons destruction facility in Kambarka, which is scheduled to be completed in 2005. The Netherlands is providing the funding through a bilateral agreement reached with Russia in 1998, under which the Netherlands agreed to provide more than $13 million in chemical weapons destruction aid (OPCW release, Nov. 26).
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