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Chemical watchdog removes final batch of #syria stockpile
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The last of Syria’s declared chemical weapons have been shipped from the war-torn country and are en route for destruction at sea, the world’s chemical weapons watchdog said on Monday. “As we speak, the ship (carrying the last chemicals) has just left the port (of Latakia),” Ahmet Uzumcu, head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said at a press conference in The Hague. “Removing the stockpile of precursor and other chemicals has been a fundamental condition in the program to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons program,” Uzumcu said. read more

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Watchdog launches probe of Syria chlorine attack claims
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The world’s chemical watchdog announced Tuesday that it is sending a fact-finding mission to probe the recent alleged use of chlorine gas in the #Syrian_conflict. The head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Ahmet Uzumcu, announced “the creation of an OPCW mission to establish facts surrounding allegations of use of chlorine in Syria”, a statement said. He told a meeting of the body’s executive council at headquarters in The Hague that the mission would leave soon. read more

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#OPCW: Syrian #chemical_weapons could be destroyed at sea
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#syria's over 1,000 tons of chemical weapons and precursors could be destroyed at sea if no country agrees to dispose of them on its soil, the world’s chemical watchdog said Wednesday. “This possibility has been looked at for some time already,” Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) spokesman Christian Chartier told AFP of destroying the chemicals at sea. "It’s still being looked at and is one of several solutions envisaged by member states and as long as a decision has (...)

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#OPCW adopts last-minute roadmap for Syrian chemical arsenal’s destruction
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Sigrid Kaag, the newly appointed Special Coordinator of the joint mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of #chemical_weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations, overseeing the destruction of #syria’s chemical stockpiles and production facilities speaks to the press in Damascus on October 22, 2013. (Photo: AFP)

The world’s chemical watchdog on Friday adopted a final roadmap for ridding Syria of its arsenal by mid-2014, reaching agreement hours before a deadline (...)

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