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Syria chemical weapons plan to begin 'in days': Monitoring body

2013-09-17

[Al Ahram] A US and Russian-inked programme to destroy Syria's chemical weapons should begin "in a matter of days," the watchdog tasked with implementing the plan said Monday.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said that its experts "are already at work preparing a road map that anticipates the various challenges involved in verifying Syria's declared stockpiles."

"It is envisaged... that the programme to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria will be initiated in a matter of days," the Hague-based OPCW said.

The plan was thrashed out by Russia and the United States in Geneva at the weekend to avert US-led military strikes on Syria, which is accused by Washington of having killed hundreds of people in a gas attack near Damascus on August 21.

Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
's regime is to provide "on an expeditious basis" a complete inventory of its chemical weapons, production facilities, and "related materials" to the OPCW.

Posted by:Fred

#4 Take at least a couple of days to set up the offshore accounts for the inspectors.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2013-09-17 14:40

#3 will be initiated in a matter of days

First on the agenda: "Select Potential Table Settings..."

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2013-09-17 10:56

#2 Like Greek and Turkish, Cypriot food is wonderful, Shipman. Lovely people, very commercial, but a Greek approach to paying taxes. On the Greek side, anyway -- I know nothing about the Turkish side.

Posted by: trailing wife 2013-09-17 03:57

#1 Beirut or Cyprus? Beirut is iffy again, but I am not familiar with Cypriot Haute Cousine, does anyone go there?

Posted by: Shipman 2013-09-17 00:18

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