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Syria chemical weapons plan to begin 'in days': Monitoring body
[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 Pencilneckal-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 2013-09-17 |
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