UN Secretary General Says Syria to Meet Chemical Weapons Deadline

Edited by Juan Leandro
2013-10-29 10:55:43

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United Nations, October 29 (RHC)-- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said Syria is likely to meet the deadline in dismantling its chemical arsenal. On Monday, the UN chief told reporters: “The functional destruction of the declared capacity of the Syrian Arab Republic is expected to be completed as planned by November 1st.”

A team of experts from the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (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 27th. The team has 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 said in a statement issued on Sunday that Syria had submitted a detailed plan three days ahead of the deadline 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."



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