Exclusive - Syria on track to miss deadline to destroy chemical weapons


  • World
  • Saturday, 15 Feb 2014

A view shows Ekokem AB's hazardous waste treatment plant in Riihimaki February 14, 2014. REUTERS/Martti Kainulainen/Lehtikuva

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Syria has relinquished only 11 percent of its chemical weapons in three shipments and is on track to miss a politically-loaded midyear deadline to completely destroy the toxic stockpile, sources told Reuters on Friday.

Syria should already have handed over the 1,300 tonnes of toxic chemicals declared to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the body overseeing the process with the United Nations under a Russian-American deal.

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