MOSCOW, October 25 (RIA Novosti) - Canada will allocate an additional $55 million to help Russia destroy chemical weapons, the Canadian Embassy in Moscow quoted Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew as saying Tuesday.
The money is part of Canada's obligation to contribute up to $1 billion to the G8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction program within a ten-year period, the Embassy said.
The Embassy also said the contribution would be used to destroy poisonous substances and ammunition in the town of Shchuchye in the Kurgan region of the Urals.
G8 leaders committed to raise up to $20 billion to support similar projects during the coming decade as part of the Global Partnership program at the summit in Kananaskis, Canada, in 2002.
