RUSSIA TO BEGIN DESTRUCTION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS.
Acknowledging that Russia has not destroyed the amount of
chemical weapons required under its earlier agreement with
the United States, Russian officials said on 6 March that
they will begin doing so this year in order to detoxify and
then destroy 40,000 tons of such weapons now stored in six
regions of the country, Interfax reported. Meanwhile, the
first Russian complex for handling metallic radioactive
wastes opened in Leningrad Oblast, Interfax-North-West
reported the same day. PG
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