On the occasion of the seventh meeting of the U.S.­Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technological Cooperation (the Gore­Chernomyrdin Commission) in Moscow on July 15­16, 1996, the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy and the United States Department of Energy reaffirrned their commitment to jointly cooperate to ensure the highest possible standards of nuclear material control, accounting, and physical protection in accordance with the Agreement on Control, Accounting, and Physical Protection dated September 2, 1993. The U.S. and Russian sides noted the progress that has been made in this area. They recalled the agreements reached at the previous six meetings between Vice President Gore and Prime Minister Chernomyrdin, as well as the agreements between our Presidents at the Nuclear Summit to expand cooperation. They further decided that in 1996 cooperation on nuclear material control, accounting, and physical protection should be expanded to the following facilities:

• Moscow Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
• St. Petersburg Central Design Bureau of Machine Building
• Electrochemical Combine (for Uranium Isotope Separation) in Zelenogorsk

• Moscow Scientific Research and Design Institute of Power Technology (NIKIET)

 

SECRETARY OF ENERGY OF THE UNITED

STATES OF AMERICA

Signed by Hazel R. O'Leary

MINISTER FOR ATOMIC ENERGY OF

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Signed by Viktor N. Mikhailov

Moscow, July 16, 1996
 

Source: URL: http://www.eia.doe.gov/gorec/gcc23.html

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