Chemical weapons inspectors to return to Libya

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UNITED NATIONS — International weapons inspectors will visit Libya within weeks to check new secret chemical arms stockpiles found since the fall of Moamer Kadhafi, a weapons treaty spokesman said Thursday.

"Eyes in the sky" are watching over the security of the caches which Libya's National Transitional Council reported to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said its spokesman Michael Luhan.

Inspectors went to Libya last week to check the safety of the stockpile that Kadhafi revealed in 2004 after his country signed the treaty which orders a global ban on chemical weapons.

Luhan said the weapons base at Ruwagha in the Libyan desert was "in order".

"Those stockpiles remain in place. There had been no tampering, no diversions despite the emergency and the insecurity."
The Libyan authorities must now make a new declaration about the new caches. "They have provided general descriptive information of what is there," Luhan told AFP.

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