Final Cargo Of Chemical Arms Leaves Syria -- Al Jazeera
Global watchdog OPCW says last of country's declared stockpile en route to US ship for destruction at sea.
The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons have been shipped from the country and are en route for destruction at sea, according to the world's chemical-weapons watchdog.
A Danish ship is now to take the chemicals for transhipment in Italy's port of Gioia Tauro to the US ship Cape Ray for destruction at sea, while some chemicals are to be destroyed at sites including in the US and Britain.
"As we speak, the ship [carrying the last chemicals] has just left the port," Ahmet Uzumcu, head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said in The Hague on Monday.
"Removing the stockpile of precursor and other chemicals has been a fundamental condition in the programme to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons programme.
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They are all hedging their statements with the word "declared" and I believe none of it.
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