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Syrian chemical weapons facilities are expected to have been totally destroyed by this summer, an international watchdog has told the UN security council.
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) leader Ahmet Uzumcu said in his monthly report on Monday that he expected five underground facilities to be destroyed before June 30, followed “shortly thereafter” by seven aircraft hangars where deadly chemicals were also made.
He added that a special remote monitoring system used by the UN nuclear agency would be installed in the five underground facilities to ensure that they were not used again.
An OPCW fact-finding mission concluded last month “with a high degree of confidence” that chlorine had been used as a weapon on three villages in northern Syria from April to August 2014, killing 13.
