Russia has not come to the conference empty-handed. The Russian delegation plans to announce that Russia will allocate tens of millions of dollars over the period until 2009.
The vaccine has undergone immunizing power tests, and sterility tests have been launched to last until mid-March. Then we will try it on a limited number of volunteers.
Deaths of wild fowl continue to occur, although less intensively. In Russia, we intend to keep the current situation within the existing framework, and will try to reduce the affected area through culling all domestic birds until wild fowl leave the country.