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Facilities of CW Stockpiling and Destruction
Facilities of CW stockpiling and destruction
Plan for destruction of chemical weapons at the CWDF in Gornyii (Saratov region)
Plan for the construction and operation of chemical weapons destruction facilities (with US financial and technical assistance)
Plan for the construction and operation of chemical weapons destruction facilities (without US financial and technical assistance)
Plan for the construction and operation of chemical weapons
destruction facilities
(without US financial and technical assistance)
In accordance with a resolution of Congress, USA suspended financial assistance
for the construction of the chemical weapons destruction facility (CWDF) being
built in the vicinity of Shchuchye in 2000. Funding has not yet been renewed,
despite the fact that the Russian Federation has created a basis for fulfilling
the conditions set by the US Congress.Under these circumstances the Russian Federation, while taking all possible measures to meet the deadlines for the destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles envisaged by the Convention, has been compelled to amend its plans for the construction of chemical weapons destruction facilities.
It is proposed, in the first place, to accelerate the construction of the facility near Kamburka in the Urdmurt Republic. This facility is designed to destroy all lewisite stored on it, thus completing stage 2 - the destruction of 20% of CW stockpiling.
2006 should see the completion of the Shchuchye CWDF, with a capacity of 1,700 MT/year. By 2012, chemical munitions filled with organophosphorus agents from "Shchuchye" and "Kizner" CWDF stockpiles will be destroyed there.
Air-borne munitions filled with organophosphorus agents will be destroyed at three destruction facilities, planned for Leonidovka, Maradykovskiy and Pochep, where the detoxication will be carried out. The reaction mass will be shipped as it is produced to the place of destruction or sent for disposal to a dedicated industrial facility.
Plan for the construction and operation of chemical weapons destruction facilities in the Russian Federation (without the USA financial and technical assistance) (Table 1)
Plan for the construction and operation of chemical weapons destruction facilities in the Russian Federation (without the USA financial and technical assistance) (Table 2)
Comparison of Federal Target Programme "Destruction of chemical weapons in the Russian Federation" in new and old wording