Syria Submits Further Details Of Chemical Weapons To Monitoring Group
By Karen DeYoung and Colum Lynch, Published: September 20 | Updated: Saturday, September 21, 5:47 PM
Syria has submitted a second statement containing details of its chemical-weapons stockpiles to the international organization charged with monitoring and destroying them, the group reported Saturday.
In a statement from its headquarters in The Hague, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said the “expected disclosure from the Syrian government” had been received. An initial document was submitted Friday. It said the material was being reviewed by the OPCW “technical secretariat.”
The announcement indicated that Syria has fulfilled its initial obligation under a U.S.-Russia disarmament agreement, and the list will now be compared to an accounting of Syria’s chemical arsenal already submitted by those two governments.
But the OPCW has postponed a Sunday meeting at which its executive committee was to have begun discussing implementation of the agreement, under which the organization is to begin putting the stockpiles under international control next month and eliminate them during the first half of next year.
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