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Syria meets deadline to submit chemical weapons list
Source: The Telegraph
Syria meets deadline to submit chemical weapons list
By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent
4:29PM BST 20 Sep 2013
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Syria had crossed the first hurdle set down in an agreement between Russia and the United States intended to ward off a punitive western bombing campaign.
“We have received an initial disclosure from Syria of its chemical weapons programme,” a statement said. “It’s now being examined by the Technical Secretariat.”
The decision by President Bashar al-Assad to abandon decades of secrecy over his chemical weapons arsenal, said to be the biggest in the Middle East, and join treaties controlling their use, was initially met with scepticism. Critics portrayed it as a delaying tactic.
The OPCW did not initially give details of what was contained in the disclosures. But its principal backer, Russia, which played a key role in forcing Mr Assad to agree to the chemical weapons deal, already agrees with American assessments of its size, and that is unlikely to be a major issue.
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By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent
4:29PM BST 20 Sep 2013
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Syria had crossed the first hurdle set down in an agreement between Russia and the United States intended to ward off a punitive western bombing campaign.
“We have received an initial disclosure from Syria of its chemical weapons programme,” a statement said. “It’s now being examined by the Technical Secretariat.”
The decision by President Bashar al-Assad to abandon decades of secrecy over his chemical weapons arsenal, said to be the biggest in the Middle East, and join treaties controlling their use, was initially met with scepticism. Critics portrayed it as a delaying tactic.
The OPCW did not initially give details of what was contained in the disclosures. But its principal backer, Russia, which played a key role in forcing Mr Assad to agree to the chemical weapons deal, already agrees with American assessments of its size, and that is unlikely to be a major issue.
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Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10323800/Syria-meets-deadline-to-submit-chemical-weapons-list.html
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