Center for Civil Society International ([email protected])
Sun, 23 Nov 1997 15:03:19 -0800 (PST)
Sender: [email protected] (Lev A. Fedorov)
Dear Friends of Civil Society,
We are interesting in cooperation with US organization in the field of
chemical safety.
Sincerely yours,
Professor Lev A.Fedorov,
President of Union for
Chemical Safety (Russia),
phone/fax: +7-095-129-05-96,
E-mail: [email protected]
117292 Russia, Moscow,
8-2-83 Profsojuznaja str.
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UNION FOR CHEMICAL SAFETY (RUSSIA)
Union for Chemical Safety (UCS) was organized at the first
meeting on 15 October, 1993.
UCS is an interregional public non-governmental organization
of Russia. Aimed at exclusion of the most wide-spread highly
toxic anthropogenic substances:
* superecotoxicants - toxic chemicals (chemical weapons, CW),
dioxins and dioxin-like compounds, liquid rocket fuels,
* ecotoxicants - toxic metals, pesticides etc.
GOAL of UCS - to help the people of the Russia to find an ecologically
sound way out of the legacy of many years of chemical toxics proliferation
and abuse.
At the UCS there are many regional branches:
* Brjansk (storage of modern CWs, pesticides etc),
* Chuvash Republic (production of modern CWs; dioxins; pesticide's
production etc),
* Ivanovo region (old CWs production; liquid rocket fuels),
* Kemerovo (dioxins; emissions of chemical plants etc),
* Khabarovsk (pesticides etc),
* Kurgan (storage of modern CWs),
* Moscow (storage and testing of old CWs; development of CWs; dioxins),
* Nizhnyy Novgorod (production of old CWs and new pesticides; dioxins;
liquid rocket fuels; emissions of chemical plants etc),
* Penza (storage of modern CWs),
* Samara (production and disposal of old CWs; pesticide's production;
dioxins),
* Saratov (testing of CWs; storage of old CWs; liquid rocket fuels),
* Tula (old production of CWs; dioxins; emissions of chemical
plants etc),
* Udmurt Republic (storage of old and modern CWs; disposal of
old CWs; dioxins),
* Volgograd (production of old and modern CWs; pesticide's
production; dioxins; emissions of chemical plants etc).
The representatives of other regions are working in the
UCS on individual basis.
The authority body of UCS is the Association Council.
The President - Prof. Lev A.Fedorov (Dr.Chemistry).
The FUNDAMENTAL GOALS of UCS:
(a) publication articles in mass-media - in central newspapers
and mass-media of Russia, in local press of towns (topics:
chemical safety of people, ecologically safe disposal of
chemical weapons etc);
(b) lobbying in governmental bodies;
(c) risk assessment in field of chemical safety;
(d) ecological monitoring and rehabilitation the many regions
destroyed by the process of preparing for chemical and rocket
war and by the process of chemical accidents;
(e) medical monitoring and help people suffering from the
consequences of the production, testing, and disposal/stockpiling
of CWs and of other chemical toxics (pesticides etc);
(f) the ecologically safe destruction of CWs, military and other
toxics (dioxins, rocket fuel, old pesticides etc);
(g) the conversion of the CWs industry;
(h) international cooperation (UCS cooperates with ecological
organizations and individuals of different countries).
UCS has published three books:
* Dioxins as Ecological Danger (1993),
* Chemical Weapons in Russia: History, Ecology, and Politics (1994),
* Undeclared Chemical War in Russia: Politics against Ecology (1995).
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