Russia Set to Destroy 20 Percent of Chemical Arsenal by 2007, Official Says

Russia plans to fulfill its obligation under the Chemical Weapons Convention to destroy 20 percent of its chemical weapons arsenal by the end of April 2007, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko said Saturday (see GSN, Sept. 24).

Russia has presented the executive council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which oversees the treaty, with “information on the course of the destruction of chemical weapons in our country and on the construction of new facilities for this purpose,” Yakovenko said (ITAR-Tass/BBC Monitoring, Oct. 30).

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