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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 18. August 2005 / Timeline August 18, 2005
Version 3.517. August 2005, 19. August 2005
08/18/2005
Stage one of
chemical weapons destruction facility to be launched in
March
Russian News & Information Agency
MOSCOW, August 18 (RIA Novosti) - The first stage of a chemical
weapons destruction facility in the Kirov region in European
Russia's northeast will be launched in March 2006, Regional
Governor Nikolai Shaklein told a press conference Thursday.
He said all chemical weapons in the Kirov region, which is one of
Russia's six regions with chemical weapons arsenals and holds
second place in the country in terms of its stock (17.4% of
national chemical weapons stock), should be destroyed by 2012.
Shaklein said some of the ammunition have expired storage terms. He
said such weapons are destroyed in line with special secure
technology.
The Maradykovsky arsenal holds 40,791 aviation weapons and
warheads, which means 6,936 metric tons of nerve agents.
All of the ammunition was produced between 1953 and 1987.
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