Inspectors verify all but one Syrian chemical sites
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International experts have verified all but one of Syria’s 23 declared chemical weapons sites after receiving video and photographic evidence that shows a facility near the contested northern city of Aleppo has been dismantled and abandoned, they said yesterday.
The joint mission by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations, which is overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical arsenal, visited 21 of the sites last month but were unable to visit two — one of them in Aleppo Province — because of security concerns related to fighting in the area.
The Syrian government provided the joint mission with photographs and footage of the facility near Aleppo that confirmed the site has been dismantled and abandoned, the OPCW-UN mission said in a statement yesterday. It added that the building bore signs of “extensive battle damage.”
The OPCW-UN mission has not disclosed the location of the last remaining site the inspectors need to verify. Still, yesterday’s statement marked a step forward for the inspectors, who are racing to meet a mid-2014 deadline to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons program.
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