Russian officials have begun to test a lewisite disposal line at a chemical weapons destruction plant in Gorny, ITAR-Tass reported Monday (see GSN, July 29, 2002).

The “testing is being carried out using a neutral medium, without pumping in war gases,” a spokesman for the Saratov region’s information and analysis center on safe storage and destruction of chemical weapons said.

Officials will begin to destroy small amounts of lewisite in the second half of May, and the line will be launched in June, according to ITAR-Tass.  Russia is expected to destroy 20 percent of its chemical weapons stockpile by 2007 (ITAR-Tass, May 12 in FBIS-SOV, May 13).

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