... significant financial resources, which, despite the difficult situation of the 1990s, were found. All measures to eliminate chemical weapons and their means of delivery were carried out under international control by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
In 1996, the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of March 21, 1996 No. 305 approved the Federal Target Program “Destruction of stockpiles of chemical weapons in the Russian Federation”. According to this document, CW stocks in Russia included:
Category 1 CW (39966.59 tons of toxic ...
...
complicates the ability to integrate alternative opinions into the
Partnership’s decisions.
Ivan Timofeev:
Unwanted Ally? Russia and the Future of the Anti-Terrorist Coalition
If non-UN and
non-conventional organizations make their decisions more powerful (in terms of
legal consequences) than the UN and OPCW, we would see the erosion of the
chemical weapons prohibition regime as a result. The decisions of non-UN organizations
will have little international trust due ...
... be maintained both over the manufacturing of these precursors and over their consumption, up to the end user. This means that OPCW inspectors have to control how such substances are consumed. Therefore, the idea that such substances are being used for ... ... believe.
Finally, speaking as the head of the team which developed all the primary technologies involved in the destruction of chemical weapons in Russia, the author can state with certainty that he has never heard of any toxic agent in the Russian arsenal that would have ...
