The inquiry noted that Russia could not fulfill the international obligations it assumed within the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction.
"Proof of this is the extremely low realization of statements by G8 leaders about the necessity to provide international financial aid to Russia," the inquiry said. "This aid is provided extremely slowly, in reduced amounts, and not at the time set."
According to them, only 3% of the promised international financial assistance to Russia for destroying chemical weapons in 2004 was given.
"The insufficient financing also hampers the creation of a system of installations to destroy chemical weapons," they noted. "Of the six planned installations, only one in Gorny settlement Saratov Region [the Volga area], was put into operation."
In this regard, the Federation Council members asked Mr. Fradkov to make a decision on allocating additional funds from the federal budget to fulfill the federal program for destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons.
"This will make it possible to destroy the Russia-stated 8,000 metric tons of toxic agents or 20% of the total stockpiles of chemical weapons by 2007," they said.
