MORE INTERNATIONALLY " KURSK" FUND CALLS WESTERN ONES OF SPONSOR FOR
THE SUPPORT OF THE OPERATION FOR THE ELEVATION OF THE HAD AN ACCIDENT
RUSSIAN ATOM U BOAT








BRUSSELS, 2 March (of RIA Nowosti rIA-Nowosti-Korrespondent Viktor
Onutschko).  The international " Kursk" fund called western sponsor,
one would help for the elevation of the Russian nuclear-powered
submarine necessary means urgently to supply, as long as the time
suitable for the execution of the operation was not missed.  That
comes out from a communique, which the fund in Brussels published.

As is determined therein, the " Kursk" fund would have contacted all
heads of the government of the European Union countries as well as
Japan, Canada, Norway and the USA with the call to supply in each case
1.9 million euro which would constitute collected one half of the
total necessary for the operation.  The other half is to finance the
Russian page.  The means are necessary to prevent " over by the
elevation " of the Kursk " the environmental damage radically which
could be caused by the sunk nuclear-powered submarine ", is called it
in the document.  In the letter of the fund executive committee to the
Secretary-General of the European Union advice, Javier Solana, which
had supported the targets of the fund, to it that 1.9 million euro for
such a important request no excessive total is, means it was referred
in the communique.