俄羅斯今年年底前將銷燬本國全部化學武器

Russia may completely destroy its chemical weapons this year, a Russian disarmament official said last Monday.

俄羅斯裁軍部一名官員上週一透露，該國今年或將全面銷燬化學武器。

'If we move at current pace and there are no technological glitches, we will manage to complete the destruction this year', said Mikhail Babich, chairman of Russia's State Commission on Chemical Disarmament.

俄羅斯國家裁減化學武器委員會主席米哈伊爾·巴比奇表示：“如果不存在技術故障的情況，按照當前的進度，我們將設法完成今年的銷燬工作。”

At a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Babich said the country is in the final stage of implementing the arms-controlling Chemical Weapons Convention, which was signed by 192 countries and became effective in 1997.

在與俄羅斯總統弗拉基米爾·普京的一次會議中，巴比奇表示，該國已經進入到軍備化學武器控制的最後階段，全面貫徹執行由192個國家簽署，並於1997年生效的化學武器公約。

According to him, Russia has spent 330 billion rubles (about 5.6 billion U.S. dollars) so far on the chemical weapons destruction.

據他表示，截止日前，俄羅斯在化學武器的銷燬過程中已經花費了3300億盧布（約56億美元）。

Babich said nearly 70,500 tonnes of chemical weapons were stockpiled around the world, of which 40,000 tonnes were in Russia and 27,000 tonnes in the United States, with the rest divided among other countries.

巴比奇稱，有近7.05萬噸的化學武器儲存在世界各地，其中俄羅斯有4萬噸，美國有2.7萬噸。剩下的則分佈於其他各個國家。