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Friday, March 05, 2010

Russia reaffirms commitment to destroy chemical weapons by 2012

Russia will complete the construction of chemical weapon destruction plants in 2011 and will destroy all chemical weapons stockpiles by 2012, a government official said on Wednesday.

Russia signed the Chemical Weapons Convention banning the development, production, stockpiling, transfer, and use of chemical arms in 1993, and ratified it in 1997.

The country has destroyed 18,000 metric tons, or 45% of its chemical weapons stockpiles as of December 2009.

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