{"id":27661,"date":"2013-10-27T23:56:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T03:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=27661"},"modified":"2013-10-27T23:56:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T03:56:57","slug":"syria-submits-plan-for-chemical-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/10\/syria-submits-plan-for-chemical-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria submits Plan for Chemical Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>A team of international investigators says Syria has submitted a detailed plan to destroy its chemical weapons arsenal.<\/div>\n


\nThe Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said in a statement issued on Sunday that the declaration was submitted three days ahead of schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n

It provided “the basis on which plans are devised for a systematic, total and verified destruction of declared chemical weapons and production facilities”, the group said.<\/p>\n

The declaration includes a general plan of destruction to be considered by the OPCW Executive Council.<\/p>\n

The OPCW team has until November 1 to inspect chemical weapons sites declared by Syria and to destroy or render unusable all chemical agent production and weapon filling facilities.<\/p>\n

The expert team in Syria is implementing a UN resolution on scrapping the Syrian chemical weapons arsenal. The United Nations Security Council approved the resolution on September 27.<\/p>\n

On September 14, Russia and the United States agreed on a deal according to which Syria would have its chemical weapons eliminated and the US would in return not carry out planned strikes on the Arab country.<\/p>\n

The war rhetoric against Syria intensified after foreign-backed opposition forces accused the government of President Bashar al-Assad of launching a chemical attack on militant strongholds in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21.<\/p>\n

Damascus has vehemently denied the accusations, saying the attack was carried out by the militants themselves as a false-flag operation.<\/p>\n

Syria has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011. According to reports, the Western powers and their regional allies — especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey — are supporting the militants operating inside Syria.<\/p>\n

According to the UN, more than 100,000 people have been killed and a total of 7.8 million others displaced due to the violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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