RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 5, No. 46, Part I, 7 March 2001
RUSSIA TO BEGIN DESTRUCTION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS. Acknowledging that Russia has not destroyed the amount of chemical weapons required under its earlier agreement with the United States, Russian officials said on 6 March that they will begin doing so this year in order to detoxify and then destroy 40,000 tons of such weapons now stored in six regions of the country, Interfax reported. Meanwhile, the first Russian complex for handling metallic radioactive wastes opened in Leningrad Oblast, Interfax-North-West reported the same day. PG
Copyright (c) 2001. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. http://www.rferl.org
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