MOSCOW, Mar 21 Russia and China urge US and Japan accelerate and complete the elimination of chemical weapons.
The text of the joint statement on deepening relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation is published on the Kremlin website.
«The parties insist that the United States, as the only state party to the Chemical Weapons Convention that has not completed the process of destroying its stockpile of chemical weapons, expedite its elimination, and urge Japan to complete the destruction of chemical weapons left in China as soon as possible «, — the statement says.