MOSCOW, April 20 (Itar-Tass) -- Five chemical weapons disposal plants will be built in Russia in the next two years, director of the Federal Special Construction Agency Gen. Nikolai Abroskin said on Wednesday.

“We are building simultaneously five chemical weapons disposal plants. They will be commissioned in 2005-2006,” the general said in an interview with the weekly Military Industrial Courier.

“The Federal Special Construction Agency is a general contractor in the presidential programme for the disposal of chemical weapons and is building the main facilities. All chemical weapons stocks will have been fully disposed by 2012 after disposal plants had been commissioned,” Abroskin emphasized.

According to the general, “the first world chemical weapons disposal plant has been built in the Saratov region.” More than 400 tonnes of mustard have been disposed at the plant in 2003 that allowed Russia to fulfill its commitments for the world community within the set terms. At present the disposal plant is completing the disposal of lewisite.