MOSCOW. July 21 (Interfax-AVN) - The State Commission for Chemical Disarmament will hold an extramural session in Kambarka, Russia's internal republic of Udmurtia, on July 27, committee member Nikolai Bezborodov told Interfax-Military News Agency on Thursday.
"Committee members will examine the chemical munitions destruction facility that is under construction in Kambarka. They will also take part in the opening of a new emergency ambulance station, which has been built in the framework of the social infrastructure development program," said Bezborodov, who is also a member of the State Duma.
Completion of the check out and start up at the Kambarka facility is scheduled for October, and the building and construction work is to be over before November 1, he said.
"The state acceptance commission will start working in Kambarka on November 1," Bezborodov noted.
According to him, the facility is 90 percent ready. "This corresponds to the schedule," he said.
Deputy head of the Russian Industry Agency Viktor Kholstov is expected to report to the commission on results of chemical disarmament in 2005 and on prospects of implementing the second stage of the Russian chemical weapons destruction program.
"To reach second stage targets, Russia is to dispose of 8,000 tonnes of poisonous agents before May 2007. The figure amounts to 20 percent of the country's chemical weapons stocks," Bezborodov said.