Vladimir Putin (left)
Washington is not fulfilling its obligations in terms of the destruction of chemical weapons, said President Vladimir Putin during a teleconference with the others. His words leads TASS on Wednesday, September 27.
“Three times already [USA] postpones liquidation, including under the pretext of lack of sufficient required amount of budget funds, which, honestly, sounds kind of weird,” said the President.
The head of state stressed that Russia strictly abides by its obligations in the sphere of nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and understands the risks of a renewed arms race. “We hope that Russia’s efforts to eliminate chemical weapons will serve as an example for other countries”, — said Putin.
3 September it was reported that Russia has completed the destruction of munitions with poison gas lewisite. This was done on object on storage and destruction of chemical weapons “Kizner” in Udmurtiya.
August 8, the head of the Federal Department for safe storage and destruction of chemical weapons Valery Kapashin said that Russia will complete the process of destruction of chemical weapons at least six years before the United States that are planning to destroy its stockpiles by 2023.
In March, the Chairman of the state Commission on chemical disarmament, the Plenipotentiary of the President in Volga Federal district Mikhail Babich said that the relevant program spent a total of more than 330 billion rubles.
Russia began disposal of Soviet chemical weapons in January 1998. By this time, his inventory amounted to about 40 thousand tons.