The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Thursday that Syria has destroyed all its declared chemical weapons installations
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Thursday that Syria has destroyed all its declared chemical weapons installations.
The international chemical weapons watchdog mad
e the statement in a document obtained by Reuters on Thursday.
According to the document, Syria has completed the destruction of equipment for producing chemical arms, meeting a deadline set for its disarmament program.
“The OPCW is satisfied it has verified, and seen destroyed, all declared critical production/mixing/filling equipment from all 23 sites,” the document said.
A team of experts from the Hague-based OPCW and the UN is in Syria to implement a UN resolution on scrapping the Syrian chemical arsenal. The United Nations Security Council approved the resolution on September 27.
The team had until November 1 to inspect the chemical weapons arsenal declared by the Syrian government and keep a tab on the destruction of the related facilities.
The OPCW also said in a statement issued on Sunday that Syria had submitted a detailed plan to destroy its chemical weapons arsenal.
It provided “the basis on which plans are devised for a systematic, total and verified destruction of declared chemical weapons and production facilities,” the organization said.
