Syria must accelerate chemical disarmament: watchdog

January 31, 2014 18:38

The world's chemical watchdog called today for Syria to "pick up the pace" in shipping out its chemical weapons stockpile after a key deadline was missed.

"The need for the process to pick up the pace is obvious," Director General Ahmet Uzumcu said in a statement after a meeting of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' (OPCW) executive council yesterday in The Hague.

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