Bilateral Programmes
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Outside the framework of many formally structured programmes, much nuclear clean-up and security work in Russia is performed by simple government to government agreements. Both the UK and Norway have, through government to government contracts dismantled some five non-strategic submarines in the Northern Fleet. Likewise, Germany has been working in Sayda Bay to build reliable shelters for submarine reactor compartments. This section deals with agreements such as this that fall outside the more traditional framework of Cold War legacy elimination, such as programs spearheaded by the US Department of Energy.
Russian Accounts Chamber Chairman Sergei Stepashin and his Norwegian counterpart Auditor General Jørgen Kosmo will together sign a memorandum with analysis and conclusions on Norway-sponsored nuclear safety projects in the Russian Northwest, the Barents Observer reported.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said his country could give up nuclear weapons if everyone else that had them did the same, world news agencies reported late Wednesday.
Russia and the United States are due to begin talks on Tuesday on a new treaty to reduce the number of nuclear weapons, Russia Today reported.