Moscow does not agree with the increase in the budget of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for the next year, said Russian permanent representative to the OPCW, Alexander Shulgin. He stressed that the budget program now provides for an increase in expenditures by 2 million 400 thousand.
euro for attribution, while technical assistance programs for the state do not receive sufficient funding. "We propose to return to the editorial program of the budget for 2019 of July 6," RIA Novosti quotes Shulgin. Disagreements over the budget arose because of the decision taken at the end of June to expand the mandate of the OPCW. At the same time, Shulgin stressed that Russia is not going to kill the organization’s budget, but is trying to offer “the only possible consensus budget option”.