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Syria on track to miss deadline for destroying its chemical weapons
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/14/syria-on-track-to-miss-deadline-for-destroying-its-chemical-weapons/Syria on track to miss deadline for destroying its chemical weapons
By Reuters
Friday, February 14, 2014 19:32 EST
By Anthony Deutsch
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.
A third shipment this week contained 54 metric tonnes of hexamine, a raw material for explosives, bringing the total shipped so far to a bit more than 140 tonnes, three sources at the OPCW said.
That includes only about 5 percent of the most toxic priority chemicals, the sources said.