The document was signed by head of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency's international and foreign economic cooperation Vladimir Kuchinov and Director for International Nuclear Policy and Programs of the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry Ian Downing.
The Nuclear Cities partnership is aimed to prevent the distribution of nuclear technologies and materials of mass destruction through assistance in the resolution of problems of employment in Rosatom closed cities for nuclear specialists dismissed from Rosatom enterprises during the realization of reformation and conversion programs of Russia's nuclear weapon complex.
The Nuclear Cities partnership program is financed by the U.K. Trade and Industry Department with participation of Russian partners.
It took us a lot of time to prepare this memorandum, we worked on this task for some two years, said Mr. Downing. He expressed the hope that the document would result in signing agreements between the governments of the United Kingdom and Russia.
The partnership is developing in the framework of and in full accordance with the aims and tasks of the G8 global partnership against the proliferation of weapons and materials of mass destruction.
