MOSCOW SEEKS HELP TO DESTROY CHEMICAL WEAPONS. A spokesman for
the Munitions Agency told AP on 9 February that the Russian
government will begin to destroy its chemical weapons stocks "in
the second half of this year" but need additional Western funding
to go forward. Russia is now more than a year past the deadline
it had agreed to at the start of the process. PG
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