MOSCOW. Jan 22 (Interfax-AVN) - About 10 percent of the money invested into chemical weapons destruction will be spent on social issues, Sergei Kiriyenko, the chairman of the State Chemical Disarmament Commission and the presidential envoy to the Volga Federal District, said at a news conference in the Interfax main office Wednesday.
"First of all, this is withdrawal of the population to special sanitary-protected areas, housing, and creation of modern social infrastructure," he said.
According to Kiriyenko, two 18-apartment blocks have already been commissioned, another 21-apartment block is being prepared, and 46 of the 77 cottages making a medical and educational settlement have already been received by their tenants.
He also said that a unique hospital with a laboratory and a polyclinic was being built there. Its personnel are assigned not only to treat local patients, but also monitor their health and manage prophylactic measures.
The only problem in Gorny is that to maintain this infrastructure will cost more than the local administration can afford, he said.
Kiriyenko said he believed that the best way out would have been to render the settlement the status of a restricted-access administrative area with a special status of local government.