MOSCOW. Feb 26 (Interfax-AVN) -The state commission on chemical disarmament will hold its next session in Moscow on March 6.
"There are three main issues on the commission's agenda," a source in the commission told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Director General of the Russian Ammunition Agency Zinovy Pak will sum up results of chemical disarmament in Russia for 2002 and outline prospects of implementing the federal purpose- oriented program "Destruction of Chemical Weapons Stocks in Russia" in 2003.
Chief of the federal department for safe stockpiling and scrapping of chemical weapons Valery Kapashin will deliver a report on the protection of storage and scrapping of chemical weapons and progress in the implementation of a joint actions plan aimed at preventing and eliminating possible emergencies at chemical weapons storage and scrapping facilities.
State secretary and deputy director general of the Russian Ammunition Agency Vyacheslav Kulebyakin and executive director of the Grazhdansky Klub non-commercial enterprise Vyacheslav Bakayev will speak on the organization of work by federal executive bodies in Russian regions with public and residents of chemical weapons storage and scrapping areas.
"The first two issues are traditionally in the center of the state commissions' attention, but the third issue, the work with public and locals, has only been given attention lately. Environmentalist and other public organizations, as well as donor countries of the chemical weapons scrapping program, should be given credit for that," the source added.