Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Says World’s Chemical Weapons Destroyed: “Important Milestone”:

OPCW has lately blamed Syria for finishing up chemical assaults throughout its civil conflict.

The world’s chemical weapons watchdog stated Friday that each one declared shares had been “irreversibly destroyed” after the US revealed it had lastly removed its final poisonous arms.

President Joe Biden introduced that the Blue Grass Military Depot, a US Military facility in Kentucky, had eradicated its decades-old shares, finishing a world effort began in 1997 to rid the world of chemical weapons.

“The top of destruction of all declared chemical weapons stockpiles is a crucial milestone”, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) chief Fernando Arias stated in an announcement.

The Hague-based physique stated that the step by the US, the “final possessor state”, meant that “all declared chemical weapons stockpiles (have been) verified as irreversibly destroyed”.

However current use of chemical weapons meant the world nonetheless needed to be on guard, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning OPCW warned.

The watchdog has lately blamed Syria for finishing up chemical assaults throughout its civil conflict, and investigated the usage of Soviet-era nerve brokers in opposition to a former Russian spy in Britain and Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny in Russia.

“Latest makes use of and threats of use of poisonous chemical compounds as weapons illustrate that stopping re-emergence will stay a precedence for the organisation,” Arias cautioned.

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