MOSCOW. Sept 28 (Interfax) - Russian military specialists will inspect a UK Armed Forces site on Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
"In line with the 2011 Vienna Document on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures, a Russian group of inspectors plans to pay an assessment visit to a military site of the UK Armed Forces," Russian National Nuclear Threat Reduction Center head Sergei Ryzhkov, said.
The inspection will take one day and will be conducted on September 28, Ryzhkov said.
The Russian Defense Ministry, however, has not named the UK military site that will be inspected.
Russian military inspectors rarely visit UK Armed Forces facilities.
"The objective of such assessment visits is to verify information about armed forces and plans of the deployment of the main systems of weapons and military hardware," Ryzhkov said.
"The inspectors will visit the military facility on its regular peacetime location and will be briefed by the command on the personnel and the main weapon systems and hardware," he said.
The Russian National Nuclear Threat Reduction Center was established simultaneously with its U.S. counterpart under a September 15, 1987 agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Initially, the center's sole function was to timely exchange ballistic missile launch notifications with the U.S.
However, according to the Russian Defense Ministry's website, the center's duties have broadened since then, and today it is responsible for the implementation of about 15 international treaties and agreements, among them verification measures as part of the Russia-U.S. Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, the 2011 Vienna Document on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures, and the agreement with China on the mutual reduction of armed forces and weapons in the border area.