UN / OPCW

In a statement read by the Secretary-General’s Spokesperson, the Joint Mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations (OPCW-UN) announced that the removal of Syria’s chemical weapons material is now complete. UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:57
• Production Date: 23 June 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: ORGANISATION FOR THE PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS - OPCW
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; LAW
• Geographic Subject: SYRIA
• MAMS Id: 1120511

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STORY: UN / OPCW
TRT: 0.57
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 23 JUNE 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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23 JUNE 2014, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room
3. The Joint Mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of the Chemical Weapons and the United Nations welcomes the removal of the remaining 7.2 per cent of chemical weapons from the Syria. With this last movement, the total of declared chemical weapons materials destroyed or removed from Syria has reached 100%. The most operationally challenging task within the effort to eliminate the Syrian chemical weapons programme has come to an end.
4. Cutaway, journalists and podium
5. A new chapter in the elimination process now begins. The Joint Mission thanks the Italian authorities for providing a port for transloading part of the cargo, after which the rest of the materials will be transported onward to the various destruction facilities.
6. Wide shot, press room

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In a statement read by the Secretary-General’s Spokesperson today (23 June), the Joint Mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations (OPCW-UN) announced that the removal of Syria’s chemical weapons material is now complete.

With the removal of remaining 7.2 per cent, all of the chemical weapons have been either destroyed or at least removed from Syria.

The “most operationally challenging task” now completed, a new stage in the process begins.

The Italian authorities have provided a port for “transloading a part of the cargo”, after which the remaining materials will be transported to the various destruction facilities.

The removal of the chemical weapons from Syria began in early January, after an agreement brokered by Russia and the United States, by which Syria renounced its chemical weapons material and joined 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention.