UN Experts ‘Begin Destroying Syria Stockpile’

{{A team of disarmament inspectors in Syria have begun the process of destroying the country’s chemical weapons and production facilities, news reports say.}}

A source in the international mission told media on Sunday that members of the team from the UN and The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) “have left for a site where they are beginning verification and destruction”.

“Today is the first day of destruction, in which heavy vehicles are going to run over and thus destroy missile warheads, aerial chemical bombs and mobile and static mixing and filling units,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added.

Media said it had spoken to a UN official who confirmed that inspectors had begun destroying the stockpile.

The official, who spoke to media on condition of anonymity, couldn’t confirm what specifically was destroyed, but said that by the end of Sunday, a combination of both weapons and some production equipment would be put out of order.

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