MOSCOW INCREASES SPENDING ON DESTRUCTION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS.
Deputy Foreign Minister Grigorii Berdennikov said on 14 March
that Moscow will spend six times more in 2001 than it did in
2000 on the destruction of chemical weapons, Interfax
reported. He said that Russia had not been able to meet its
obligations because of economic difficulties but now could
not fail to do so, lest it come under intensifying
international pressure. PG
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