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    ArmenPress
    Feb 22 2005

    DEFENSE MINISTER, OSCE OFFICE HEAD SIGN AGREEMENT FOR ELIMINATION OF
    ROCKET FUEL

    YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 22, ARMENPRESS: Defense minister Serzh Sarkisian
    and Vladimir Pryakhin, the head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, signed
    today an agreement to carry out a project for elimination of rocket
    fuel component stocks in Armenia.
    The OSCE estimates that 872 tons of rocket fuel components remain
    in Armenia and are stored in unstable conditions. These type of
    stocks, found in other states of the former Soviet Union, as well as
    in Armenia, are often kept in inadequate containers that present
    considerable environmental risk in addition to the inherent security
    risk presented by the rocket fuel components.
    Nearly 75 percent of the budget to carry out the project is
    provided by the US government. The method of neutralizing the rocket
    fuel stocks chosen by the OSCE will result in the added positive
    by-product of a liquid fertilizer for use by Armenia's farmers. The
    U.S. contribution toward implementation of this project will total
    well over one million U.S. dollars.
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