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Inspectors: Syria meets deadline for destroying chemical weapons
by Joseph Earnest October 31, 2013
Newscast Media THE HAGUE—Syria has completed the destruction of all of its chemical weapons production and mixing facilities, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said on Thursday. The OPCW, on a joint mission in Syria with the United Nations, confirmed that Syria had destroyed critical equipment for all of its declared chemical weapons production facilities and plants. In a statement issued on Thursday, the OPCW said Syria had met the deadline set by the OPCW Executive Council to "complete as soon as possible and in any case not later than November 1, 2013, the destruction of chemical weapons production equipments, including mixing and filling equipment." A group of eight inspectors, who had been conducting verification work in Damascus since Oct. 1, returned to the OPCW headquarters in The Hague. The OPCW said it had inspected 21 of the 23 sites declared by Syria, and 39 of the 41 facilities located at those sites. The two remaining sites were too dangerous to visit, but according to Syria, the chemical weapons equipment at these sites were moved to other declared sites, which were inspected. The next deadline is Nov. 15 when the UN Executive Council is to adopt a detailed plan of destruction submitted by Syria to destroy the country's more than 1,000 tons of chemical weapons by mid-2014. Add Comments>>
Source: Xinhua
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