OPCW: Syria Has Destroyed Chemical Weapons Facilities

Syria Meets Deadline To Destroy Chemical Production Facilities -- Reuters

* OPCW says it inspected 21 of 23 chemical weapons sites
* Met deadline of Nov. 1 to destroy production facilities
* By mid-2014 must have destroyed all chemical weapons
* Nov. 15 next deadline to agree destruction plan with Syria
* Agreement to destroy follows deadly Aug 21 sarin attack

BEIRUT, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Syria has destroyed or rendered inoperable all of its declared chemical weapons production and mixing facilities, meeting a major deadline in an ambitious disarmament programme, the international chemical weapons watchdog said Thursday.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which won the Nobel Peace prize this month, said its teams had inspected 21 out of 23 chemical weapons sites across the country. The other two were too dangerous to inspect, but the chemical equipment had already been moved to other sites that experts had visited, it said.

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