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| Watchdog Says Syria Chemical Handover at 86.5% |
| 2014-04-23 |
| [An Nahar] Syria has handed over 86.5 percent of its chemical weapons, the global chemical watchdog said on Tuesday, amid new claims that Damascus may have launched attacks with an industrial chemical earlier this month. The latest update comes five days before a self-imposed cut-off of April 27, by which Damascus aimed to have its stockpile removed from Syrian soil, ahead of a June 30 deadline to destroy it. A further consignment of chemicals was delivered to the main Syrian port of Latakia on Tuesday, raising "the overall portion of chemicals removed from Syria to 86.5 percent of the total", the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said in a statement. "Today's consignment was the 17th to date and the sixth consignment since April 4, making a significant acceleration in the pace of deliveries to Latakia this month," the Hague-based OPCW added. Upon arrival, the chemicals were "immediately" put onto cargo ships and "removed from the country." "This latest consignment (is) encouraging," said OPCW director general Ahmet Uzumcu. "We hope that the remaining two or three consignments are delivered quickly to permit destruction operations to get under way in time to meet the mid-year deadline for destroying Syria's chemical weapons." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 They're sure they know that much about Syria? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-04-23 11:34 |
| #3 Watchdog says Iran is not building the bomb. |
| Posted by: KBK 2014-04-23 10:04 |
| #2 There' enough left. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-04-23 02:57 |
| #1 Eighty six point five percent - because a decimal point makes everything more believable. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-04-23 00:10 |