Valery Petrosyan

A new Russian facility destroying chemical weapons is to begin operating in August. Valery Petrosyan, who is a United Nations expert on chemical safety problems, says Moscow is ahead of its obligations to eliminate its stockpiles by 2012.

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other interviews November 13, 2007, 19:03

As a third day of storms hits the Black and Azov seas, the consequence of oil spills are in focus. Valery Petrosyan, rector of Moscow's Open Ecological University, spoke to RT about the true scale of the environmental disaster.