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Syria meets chemical weapons deadline
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Syria handed over the remaining details of its chemical weapons arsenal yesterday, meeting a deadline under a deal that headed off military strikes, the world’s chemical weapons watchdog said.
Damascus had already turned over details of part of its inventory to the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, but the group said yesterday the process was now complete.
The “OPCW has confirmed it has received the expected disclosure from the Syrian government regarding its chemical weapons program,” the watchdog said.
“The Technical Secretariat is currently reviewing the information received,” it added.
The disclosure came as UN envoys struggled to agree on the wording of a resolution to enshrine the deal under which Syria is handing over its chemical weapons for destruction.
The US-Russian agreement, worked out as Washington threatened military action in response to an August 21 chemical weapons attack outside Damascus, requires Syria to hand over the whole of its arsenal. It has received widespread international support, including from China.
But the international consensus on the plan has not carried over into negotiations on the wording of a UN Security Council resolution to back it up.
The US, France and Britain want a strongly worded resolution while Russia opposes all references to the use of force.
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