Tuesday, October 1, 2013

UN Disarmament Team Launches Mission In Syria



UN Inspectors Begin Syria Disarmament -- Voice of America

International inspectors have arrived in Syria to begin the task of verifying and destroying President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons arsenal.

A convoy of about 20 vehicles crossed the border from neighboring Lebanon Tuesday en route to Damascus where the team will begin its complex mission of finding, dismantling and destroying an estimated 1,000-ton chemical arsenal.

The operation to rid Syria of chemical weapons by a target date of mid-2014 will be one of the largest and most dangerous of its kind. It is the shortest deadline that experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have ever faced in any nation, and their first mission in a country at war.

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More News On UN Chemical Inspectors Arriving In Syria To Begin The Disarmament Process

Group of international experts tasked with dismantling Syria’s chemical arsenal enter country -- Washington Post/AP
Chemical weapons inspectors cross into Syria -- USA Today/AP
Chemical Weapons Officials Prepare To Dismantle Syria’s Stockpile -- Time
Syria conflict: Chemical arms experts cross border -- BBC
UN experts enter Syria to dismantle chemical weapons programme -- Reuters
Inspectors to head to Syria to begin disabling poison gas equipment -- L.A. Times
Chemical weapons disarmament team arrives in Syria -- UPI
Weapons inspectors begin Syria mission -- Al Jazeera
Chemical arms inspectors gird for risky, dirty job -- USA Today/AP

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