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New Independent and Baltic (NIS/Baltic) States Safeguards and Security Program

The objectives of the New Independent and Baltic (NIS/Baltic) States Safeguards and Security Program paralleled with those of the Material Protection Control and Accounting (MPC&A) Program in Russia. These states, like Russia, required assistance to improve the physical security and material accounting and controls of Soviet-legacy weapons-usable nuclear material. The primary goals of the program were to provide:

  1. Rapid physical protection upgrades of sensitive facilities housing plutonium or highly-enriched uranium (HEU);
  2. Assistance in setting up material, control, and accounting systems; and
  3. Verification that material, control, and accounting, physical protection, and maintenance procedures, personnel, equipment, and software met International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) guidelines.

Risk Area(s) covered

Nuclear

Activities

Infrastructure/Equipment Support
Legislative/Regulatory Assistance

Beneficiary Countries

Belarus
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Ukraine
Uzbekistan

Beneficiary Regions

Central Asia
Europe

Budget

58000000 USD

Status

Completed
Start Date: January 1, 1993
End Date: 

ASI Database Release

Providers and Implementers ?

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Contacts

Name Position Agency/Department/Org Note
Mr Todd Perry Special Coordinator, UNSCR 1540
Department of State
United States
Mr Stephen Knight Point of Contact
United States Mission to the United Nations
United States

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