Watchdog says 90 per cent of world chemical weapons destroyed
May 28, 2015 19:58
The world's chemical watchdog said on Thursday that 90 per cent of the global chemical weapons stockpile has been destroyed, calling it a "major milestone".
The stockpiles included caches containing chemicals needed to make deadly nerve agents like sarin, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said.
"This is a major milestone that shows we are well on the way to ridding the world of chemical weapons," OPCW director Ahmet Uzumcu said in a statement, issued from the OPCW's Hague-based headquarters.
Around 65,000 metric tonnes of declared chemical weapons, mostly from US and Russian arsenals, have now been destroyed OPCW acting spokesman Peter Sawczak told AFP.
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