(MENAFN- QNA) The president of the UN Security Council for this month said Wednesday that the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons program was moving toward completion.
Australian UN Ambassador Gary Quinlan said demolition of a dozen chemical weapons production facilities, seven hangars and five underground tunnels would be finished in mid-2015. He said the 15-nation Security Council had also learned that a facility used for ricin production must be destroyed. Syria disclosed it in September.
Quinlan said officials needed to verify the Syrian government's declarations about the extent of its poison gas arsenal and production capabilities, according to the Voice of America (VOA).
Damascus agreed last year to eliminate its chemical weapons program after a sarin attack on August 21, 2013, killed hundreds of people in Ghouta, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Damascus.
Under the agreement reached with Washington and Moscow, which averted threatened US military action, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons oversaw the destruction of 1,300 tons of toxic gas chemicals that Syria declared to the Hague-based body.
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