MASS DESTRUCTION
Deadly weapons destroyed
The Hague - The world's chemical watchdog said on May 28 that 90 percent of the global chemical weapons stockpile
has been destroyed.
The stockpiles included caches containing chemicals needed to make deadly nerve agents such as sarin the
Organisation for the Prohibition of chemical weapons said. About 65000 metric tonnes of declared chemical weapons,
mostly from US and Russian arsenals, have now been destroyed, OPCW acting spokesman Peter Sawczak said.
This includes a total of 1300 metric tonnes of chemical weapons removed from Syria.
Destruction of both Russian and US Cold war-era stockpiles is scheduled to be completed by 2020 and 2023
respectively, the OPCW said. - AFP