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U.S. Senators' CIS visit begins in Moscow

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WASHINGTON, August 26 (RIA Novosti, Arkady Orlov) - U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) arrive in the Russian capital Friday to inspect the progress of the U.S-funded Nunn-Lugar weapons decommissioning program, a congressional spokesman said.

The senators are scheduled to meet with new U.S. Ambassador William Burns and with representatives of the American International Republican Institute and National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.

The senators will visit a nuclear warhead storage facility in Saratov Saturday and a missile destruction facility in Perm on Sunday.

The senators will meet with Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko in Kiev Monday and tour the Central Epidemiological Station to discuss issues related to biological weapons.

Tuesday the senators are scheduled to tour a conventional weapons storage facility in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine to study the possibility of extending the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program to conventional weapons elimination.

On Wednesday, the senators are scheduled to visit Azerbaijan to meet with President Ilham Aliyev and hold a separate meeting with opposition parties to discuss upcoming parliamentary elections in the country.

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