CASH cuts and a lack of clean disposal technology look likely to prevent
Russia and the US from keeping promises to destroy their chemical weapons.
Countries signed up to the Chemical Weapons Convention are meant to destroy
their chemical weapons arsenals by 29 April 2007. But officials from Russia and
the US told delegates in The Hague that they will not make the deadline. Russia
simply hasn’t enough cash for the task, says Valery Semin of the Russian foreign
ministry. Money has become even tighter since the US stopped funding Russia’s
chemical weapons destruction programme last year after Russia failed…
