THE COUNCIL OF THE FEDERATION WILL BE FORMLESS PREPARATION OF THE
REMONTEE OF THE " KOURSK "







MOSCOW, March 13.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Nikolai Venediktov).  Viktor
Ozerov, president of the committee of security and defense of Douma
(Lower House of the Russian Parliament), will inform Wednesday the
Council of the Federation (Upper House of the Parliament) of the
preparation of the remontee of the atomic submarine " Koursk ".

According to Ozerov, during its recent voyage has Brussels, it has
meeting the leaders of the Funds European which collects means for the
remontee of the " Koursk ".  The Funds works rather vigorously,
because the time of the operation of remontee of the " Koursk " depend
of obtaining the necessary sum.

Viktor Ozerov let know that it would also inform Wednesday the members
of the Council of the Federation of the implementation of the
agreement concluded between the governments from Russia and of the
United States on the use of the uranium highly enriched degage by the
nuclear weapons.

The agreement on the use of the uranium highly enriched sign on
February 18, 1993 prevoit supply in the United States by 500 tons
uranium highly enriched degage by the Russian nuclear weapons.  The
United States transforms uranium highly enriched into slightly
enriched uranium which will be uses with the nuclear power stations
americaines.