The president of the U.N. Security Council for this month said Wednesday that the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons program was moving toward completion.
Australian U.N. Ambassador Gary Quinlan said demolition of a dozen chemical weapons production facilities, seven hangars and five underground tunnels would be finished in mid-2015. He said the 15-nation Security Council had also learned that a facility used for ricin production must be destroyed. Syria disclosed it in September.
Quinlan said officials needed to verify the Syrian government's declarations about the extent of its poison gas arsenal and production capabilities.
Damascus agreed last year to eliminate its chemical weapons program after a sarin attack on Aug. 21, 2013, killed hundreds of people in Ghouta, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Damascus.
Under the agreement reached with Washington and Moscow, which averted threatened U.S. military action, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons oversaw the destruction of 1,300 tons of toxic gas chemicals that Syria declared to the Hague-based body.
Australian U.N. Ambassador Gary Quinlan said demolition of a dozen chemical weapons production facilities, seven hangars and five underground tunnels would be finished in mid-2015. He said the 15-nation Security Council had also learned that a facility used for ricin production must be destroyed. Syria disclosed it in September.
Quinlan said officials needed to verify the Syrian government's declarations about the extent of its poison gas arsenal and production capabilities.
Damascus agreed last year to eliminate its chemical weapons program after a sarin attack on Aug. 21, 2013, killed hundreds of people in Ghouta, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Damascus.
Under the agreement reached with Washington and Moscow, which averted threatened U.S. military action, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons oversaw the destruction of 1,300 tons of toxic gas chemicals that Syria declared to the Hague-based body.
[voanews.com]
5/11/14
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The work on demolishing 12 remaining chemical weapons production facilities in Syria is due to begin later this month and is expected to be completed by mid-2015, Gary Quinlan, president of the UN Security Council this month told reporters...
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“We also had a report on the preparations to destroy a further facility, declared by Syria in addition to those twelve, which was a ricin production facility, which we had known about at an earliest stage,” Quinlan added.................http://en.ria.ru/world/20141106/195183531/Remaining-Syrian-Chemical-Sites-to-Be-Destroyed-by-Summer-2015.html
6/11/14