OPCW: Syria Submitted Chemical Arms Destruction Plan on Time
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Syria handed over a detailed plan to destroy its chemical stockpile on time, international watchdog OPCW said Sunday.
"On 24 October 2013, the Syrian Arab Republic submitted to the OPCW its formal initial declaration covering its chemical weapons program," the watchdog said in a statement, adding that Damascus had had until Sunday to do so.
Damascus was required to submit the destruction plan under a U.S.-Russian deal agreed last month that headed off military strikes on Syria.
The accord also gives Syria up to mid-2014 to destroy its chemical arsenal.
President Bashar Assad's regime has already handed over an inventory of its chemical weapons and facilities, and international inspectors are already busy inspecting and destroying them.
The OPCW said a first monthly report of the international inspectors, covering their work on the ground since October 1, is ready and will be sent to the U.N. Security Council by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon.
Syria's latest disclosures "provide the basis on which plans are devised for a systematic, total and verified destruction of declared chemical weapons and production facilities", said the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which won this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
"The document from Syria includes a general plan of destruction for consideration by the OPCW Executive Council," it added.
The OPCW's Executive Council will use the Syrian declaration to decide by November 15 on "destruction milestones" for Syria's arsenal.
Syria has also sent in a declaration of its chemical weapons activities and facilities, meeting its obligations as a new state party to the Chemical Weapons Convention, the OPCW said.
27 October 2013, 14:07
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And the reports are that none of Assad's chemical inventory had been weaponized for battlefield use ... It was all still in storage.
Which leads to the question who really used those chemical weapons in Ghouta and Allepo?
UN Representative Carla Del Ponte has already pointed to the terrorists as being responsible for Aleppo.
Was Ghouta staged to keep investigators from their original mandate Aleppo? The Ghouta photos were staged, casualties exaggerated.
So if Assad is not guilty of "gassing" his people who is? The finger points straight at Qaeda and their KSA sponsors ...
Will there be a real investigation into who was behind the chemical attacks in Syria? Doubtful ... the coverups and red lines are already drawn to protect the powerful.
27 October 2013, 15:52
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Please dont lie, Del ponte said there was testimony accusing the rebels, not that they did it. There are as well testimony saying the opposite.
She was denied by the UN, US, EU (why are not my references). To this day she did not produce real proofs. Btw, she did the same kind of unfunded allegations when she was working for the international tribunal for ex yugoslavia...
27 October 2013, 21:00
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McKidiot.... stop lying. Del Ponte had no proof that the rebels ever used chemical weapons. Ever. Her statements referred only to testimony by pro-Assad citizens, and her statements were immediately denounced by the UN investigative committee that she was a member of.
You are also lying that none of the chemical inventory had been weaponized. The UN investigative team gave an exhaustive report clearly showing that the chemical weapons in Ghouta were fired from pro-Assad controlled areas, based on the trajectory of the missiles that carried the chemical payload.
You are a liar and a failed propagandist.
27 October 2013, 21:07
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don't worry people power: typical complex of superiority of M8ers... they know who killed hariri, they know who fired the CW, they know everything better than any experts in the world!!!
they know how to drill oil, they know how to rule a state, they know that half lebanon are zionists canibals...
so let them bark it flatters their oversized ego!
27 October 2013, 21:28
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You are exactly right peace. I should just ignore him, but sometimes I feel the need to correct his false statements.
27 October 2013, 14:36
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The OPCW could do the investigation if Russia were allowed to participate. Overt conflict of interests like that of Sellstrom would need to be taken care of.
Russia has already issued a one hundred page report compliant with OPCW standards about the chemical attack in Ghouta which identified the Terrorists as the likely suspects.
The US has pulled about all the strings it can at the moment. They have their hands full from the reports of spying on their allies. Other countries are not about to yield too much in the way of influence.
27 October 2013, 18:54
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coz bashar, like his father, is israel borderguard.
Bashar's grand father was a supporter of french occupation and israel creation, he did not consider himself muslim or syrian and was begging for partition, aka alawistan...
http://www.aymennjawad.org/12686/looking-at-alawites
27 October 2013, 20:35
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but since 1973 the assads have faithfully protected the quietness of the golan heights for the security of israel while exporting the war in lebanon so that syria is sheltered from any conflict and lebanon take all the sh... thanks to hezbis and their faithful puppets from M8....
28 October 2013, 01:57
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Fun how everytime something is spoken about Syria, you are talking secterian just like the rest of the KSA.
28 October 2013, 00:01
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@ history_idiot : Assads family betrayed egyptians, lebaneses, turks, iraqi, jordanians and even moroccan soldiers come to help them on the Golan's slope.
It is well documented, stop listening to Assad's historiography and almanar BS.
abdelnasser and saddam about assads betrayal :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf1UTqV9xqE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pfxt5YBS2M&feature=share&list=TL9SW5a5eSxUJHPvD3ZEYcW8JpbqtplYNF
