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5 Role of Nongovernmental Organization in the Chemical Disarmament Process
5 Role of Nongovernmental Organization in the Chemical Disarmament Process
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Participants of the Conference representing governments and parliaments of 156 countries from all over the world decided to organize a global world organization as an ecological analogue of the Red Cross. The organization, named "Green Cross," was to be concerned about the problems of global ecological catastrophes.
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However, in contrast to the Wildlife Fund, for example, which is busy with conservation of biodiversity and environment protection in the most beautiful parts of the country, we have to work in the territories with difficult ecological problems, such as nuclear contamination, storage or destruction of chemical weapons, polluted aerodromes, and missile depots. They are the territories where the military-industrial complex left behind a difficult heritage in the earth, water, and atmosphere.
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A similar situation took place in Saratov Oblast in 1994-1995, when Prime Minister Chernomyrdin issued a secret Resolution about building a plant for chemical weapon destruction in the settlement of Corny. There were the same processes as in Chapaevsk.
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The communities of the Republic of Udmurtia—especially representatives and officials of the settlements of Kizner and Kambarki where chemical weapons are storedsupported adopting the Law on Chemical Disarmament. After difficult disputes in the State Duma and the Federal Assembly, the Law was adopted and signed finally by the President.
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In the United States public commissions called "Citizen Advisory Committees" have been working for several years in every state where chemical weapon storage facilities or plants were built and elimination has started. They unite representatives of different public organizations, reflecting interests of local residents.
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If representatives of the centers cannot answer questions immediately, they send the questions with the help of the Moscow Center to federal departments and specialists in destruction technologies for chemical weapons. This complex process of communication between the people and the authorities leads both to a decrease in the level of conflict and to an overcoming of mutual suspicion, chemophobia, and other concerns caused by the atmosphere of secrecy that has surrounded chemical disarmament for many years.
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And RGC made inspections of sites of former chemical weapon destruction near Penza and studied the possible impact of the destruction "products" on the main regional water body, the Sura reservoir. The results of this investigation were published both in the local and central mass media.
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26 CONCLUSION These results of activity in chemical disarmament of one of Russia's public organizations show the influence of the community on one of the most difficult and contentious problems of our society, elimination of weapons of mass destruction. On the other hand, one can see that both the authorities and nongovernmental organizations have a long way to go towards a civil society.
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