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"<p>An online poll has named Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) as the  \"2009 Arms Control Person of the Year,\" following his reception of the highest  number of votes.<br /><br />The staff of the Arms Control Association had named nine  individuals, institutions and country groups for the award.<br /><br />Lugar's  nomination was based upon \"his long-running support for U.S. financial  contributions to assist with the construction of Russia's chemical weapons  demilitarization complex, which began work this year to neutralize about 2  million shells and warheads stored nearby that are loaded with VX, sarin and  soman.\"<br /><br />\"The international vote selecting Richard Lugar acknowledges the  Senator's work last year, and clearly celebrates his multi-decade commitment to  reducing Cold War legacy weapons,\" Daryl G. Kimball, executive director of the  Arms Control Association, told AmericanChronicle.com.<br /><br />\"The opening of the  Shchuchye site was an important development in 2009 because it will accelerate  the destruction of millions of dangerous and obsolete chemical weapons,\" Kimball  said. \"His leadership, along with Senator Sam Nunn's, was instrumental in  founding the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program that is still working to  secure dangerous former Soviet nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and can  serve as a model for related efforts around the globe.\"<br /><br />Lugar first  demonstrated the danger of the proliferation of chemical weapons in 1999 while  visiting Shchuchye when he placed a VW-filled shell in a briefcase. The site  became operational in 2009 following the granting of $1 billion in U.S.  aid.</p>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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