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Syria's declared chemical arms '100% destroyed': watchdog

Published: 05 Jan 2016 - 05:26 pm | Last Updated: 06 Nov 2021 - 11:54 pm
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Most of Syria's chemical weapon arsenal was destroyed at sea on board the US Navy's MV Cape Ray. AFP Photo, Mario Laporta)

The Hague: All of Syria's declared chemical weapons arsenal has been destroyed, a global arms watchdog said Tuesday, more than two years after a historic US-Russia deal to eliminate the dangerous stockpile.

"One hundred percent has been destroyed," Malik Ellahi, the spokesman for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, told AFP.

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