MOSCOW. Sept 28 (Interfax-AVN) - The countries which promised to be donors of the Russian chemical weapons scrapping programme confirm their readiness to implement all obligations, Russian Ammunition Agency Director General Zinovy Pak told Interfax-Military News Agency on Friday.
Pak was asked to comment on the results of the working trip of the Russian government delegation led by Sergei Kiriyenko, President Vladimir Putin's envoy to the Volga federal district and chairman of the state commission on chemical disarmament.
The idea of those trips came from the Foreign Ministry and was supported by the presidential administration and Putin himself. "The main aim was to establish the atmosphere of support for the new version of the programme on chemical weapons scrapping in Russia," Pak said.
Further actions of countries signatories to the Convention of the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of All Types of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction depend on the stance that will be assumed by the United States, Great Britain, Italy and France regarding postponement of the term of chemical weapons scrapping in Russia to 2012. During meetings and negotiations the delegation members convinced leaders of the leading countries that Russia was indeed taking radical measures to scrap its chemical weapons which total 40,000t, Pak stressed.